Pls Help. Are Snail Shells Good For Layers?

[Wyorp Rock]

OK, that's fair. Keeping chickens away from bugs would NOT be easy!

There was mention of baking the shells above...I wonder if boiling will be a better or worse approach. Boil water might make good water for fermenting, since it'd in theory have a little calcium in it.

Baking would make them crispy

 

[rosemarythyme]

Baking would make them crispy

I'm traumatized by the sound of crunching snail shells, when I was little other kids at the bus stop would throw them like grenades.

 

[Criticalicious]

I have an abundance of snails in the garden. I feed the snails to chickens when I find them - no cooking involved (ew). They LOVE them. The smaller ones that they can swallow go down whole. The bigger ones, I crush with a rock so they can eat them. I couldn't stop the chickens from eating live snails if I wanted to.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I have an abundance of snails in the garden. I feed the snails to chickens when I find them - no cooking involved (ew). They LOVE them. The smaller ones that they can swallow go down whole. The bigger ones, I crush with a rock so they can eat them. I couldn't stop the chickens from eating live snails if I wanted to.

I don't see where anyone said not to feed them

 

[blutenstaub]

So, anyone follow through with this snail shell as calcium thing? I'm still working on finding a good feed store around here (I've found various types of rooster feed but no oyster shell), but my yard has plenty of snails! And slugs, but I don't want to encourage eating that because gapeworm sounds terrifying.