Question About Egg Shells

[clayb226]

Will the dyes from the easter eggs hurt my chickens, if I feed it to them for calcium?

 

[sgtmom52]

I shouldn't as it is a food safe dye for humans.

 

[clayb226]

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Thanks for the reply, that is what I thought, but wanted to ask, just in case some have had problems with this. Thanks again.

 

[ray2310]

I would proceed cautiously when feeding "colored" eggs shells to your chickens - wether or not they are safe is an individual opinion. Personally, I have seen some data linking artificial food colorings/dyes to ADD/ADHD as well as other Diseases - if there is a concern in human consumption, I would imagine that the dyes would be more concentrated in the chickens much-much smaller bodies - then passed forward into their eggs (as would be passed from a human mom to a baby in the womb) it's a little late for this year, but here is a great article with natural egg dye options

http://www.naturalnews.com/031763_Easter_food_dyes.html

We wouldn't use synthetic dyes on eggs or feed synthetic dyed eggs to our girls.

 

[BWKatz]

I wouldn't feed them any of the metallic dyes.