Softshell Egg?

[subhanalah]

But will that teach them to eat their own eggs?

Is it safe to give them store bought egg shells?

people crush up the shells so they are hardly recognizable. You can also buy a calcium powder supplement for reptikes, but then I fear overloading the calcium to phosphorous ratio.

 

[zazouse]

I do not provide oyster shells to my peas but they free range i believe they get the calcium and magnesium they need from the green stuff they eat while they forage.

 

[AugeredIn]

I've never had a soft shell egg (knocks on wood).

 

[zazouse]

But will that teach them to eat their own eggs?
NO

Is it safe to give them store bought egg shells?
YES

 

[casportpony]

When I have one laying thin shelled or soft shelled eggs i give them calcium and e orally.

-Kathy

 

[BYC-user-174785]

I do give my birds eggs to eat, and so far, there has only been one egg eaten right before my eyes, allowing me to get that picture. However, I have found the straw in their nest to be wet from clearly an egg, which they may have eaten. But I do not worry about it.

Right now, I am giving oyster grit to all of my birds.

 

[casportpony]

I've seen mine peck at eggs on the ground, so I pick them up.

-Kathy

 

[MinxFox]

That is a beautiful peahen!

Alright well it looks like I will be feeding them crushed egg shells and maybe cooked eggs. I also read up on plants with a lot of calcium but eggs are probably the way to go. I also looked up the calcium content of laying feed and it looks good so I need to buy a big sack of that.

 

[Dany12]

Yes beautiful peahen!
With a little observation you can see what interests this pea ... it's the yolk or shell.
If she eats the shell , it's a lack of calcium.
A rat or other small predator eats the yolk and leaves the shell!

 

[Pfauenfreund]

In the past I was feeding dried egg shells too, but not anymore. If you used shells of cooked eggs it is maybe ok, but I don’t what to take the risk to bring any salmonella or other thinks into my aviaries with the egg shells. At any case I recommend to crack the shells into small pieces before feeding that it is not looking like an egg. Otherwise it could be a risk that you train your peafowl to eat eggs.
Nowadays I us a special poultry mineral and grit with crashed mussel shells and it works prefect. I can follow up that when the hens are laying they eat a lot of it.
To mineralize your hens starts already in the winter, the hens have to fill up their storage. When they are laying eggs they take a lot of the minerals out of the body which they have stored over the winter for the breeding season.
Soft shell eggs are not only problem of a lack of calcium. Weather and other things are having an influence too.

Regards