Calcium for chickens

It is essential to provide laying hens with free choice calcium for healthy egg development, and to prevent serious health issues! Come learn how to properly provide eggshells or oyster shells as a calcium source for your flock.

Feeding chickens egg shells instead of a oyster shell. Many chickens need extra calcium to help them make strong eggs, you don't need to spend money on supplements, just feed them cleaned eggshells. Here's how.

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What makes a chicken’s eggshell robust and their bones resilient? When I began raising chickens, the significance of calcium was a mystery to me. Can you relate? No stress, many of us have been in that spot.

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Do you need to supplement your chickens with extra calcium? There's no reason to spend money on oyster shell when you can make your own egg shell calcium.

Feeding eggs shells to chickens? Click through and learn how to fee chickens egg shells: how to prepare eggs shells for chickens, how to bake egg shells for chickens, and how to feed calcium to chickens safely. Baking egg shells for chickens isn't necessary but I'll show you how. And also share lots of great information about how much calcium chickens needs, when laying hens need calcium, and the best sources of calcium for hens.

I constantly found myself buying oyster shells for the chickens' calcium supplement. Eggshells work too, and you can do it for free!

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