Saving Money

[Brooks_]

I bought a 50# bag last year in part to save money. Similar price and option as OP - it was like buy 10# and get 40# free. But my biggest factor for buying the big bag was supply chain issues.

 

[nuthatched]

I think I've only bought 3 bags of shell in 20 years of chickens, it lasts forever.
I can't find the shiny flaked kind though that I got at the beginning.

 

[Saveria]

I would do that if they actually sold flaked shell, not the compressed pellets, in larger bags. It seems 10 lb is the biggest I can find.

Rosemary, do you remember where you found the 10lb of flaked shell? My little princesses also prefer the flaked, and it would be great to get a bigger amount at one time.

 

[Borders3]

I also buy the big bag but it is the flaked shells nothing like what you have. It is called Oyster shell and that is what is in the bag. I put it in a small bucket that I got Epsom salts in and they help themselves whenever. If I put their own crushed shell in they are straight at it.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Rosemary, do you remember where you found the 10lb of flaked shell? My little princesses also prefer the flaked, and it would be great to get a bigger amount at one time.

I've been ordering the Small Pet Select brand off Amazon (as my physical feed store was having stock issues) - it's very obviously crushed shell pieces but not specifically oyster shell. Previous to stocking issues I was buying Scratch & Peck oyster shell, which looked to be 100% oyster shell flake, but it's dustier.

 

[fuzzi]

Just a note.

Oystershell doesn't spoil. So today I paid $15 for a 50# bag, which will last my large flock about 2 years.

The alternative is $7 for a 5# bag.

I keep it in the can because after a year or so the paper bag deteriorates.


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Would those be a good size for bantams, or should I just stick with the smaller flakes?

 

[The Moonshiner]

I've never given my chickens oyster shell.

 

[3KillerBs]

Would those be a good size for bantams, or should I just stick with the smaller flakes?

I don't know enough about bantams to say.

I've never given my chickens oyster shell.

I live on a pile of nutrient-poor quartz sand in an "impoverished ecology" and I feed all-flock, not layer. I figure it's cheap insurance.

My flock hovers between 20 and 30 laying hens and it lasts me about 2 years.

 

[sandy sea]

Just a note.

Oystershell doesn't spoil. So today I paid $15 for a 50# bag, which will last my large flock about 2 years.

The alternative is $7 for a 5# bag.

I keep it in the can because after a year or so the paper bag deteriorates.


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Where did you buy it?

 

[3KillerBs]

Where did you buy it?

My local feed store. It's a Southern States affiliate.