[Sca-cooks] Re: eggshells
bruniquel
bruniquel at earthlink.net
Thu Jul 31 11:13:44 PDT 2003
>I was told by a my grandmother that you have to cook the eggshells,
>especially if you feed them to chickens. The birds need the
>calcium, but chickens will begin to peck their own eggs if the
>shells aren't cooked first. Don't know if it applies to wild birds,
>though.
I never cooked the shells for my 3 RI Red laying hens (Amelia
Earhart, Big Red, and Dumb Cluck, if anyone cares), and they never
bothered their eggs. I just made sure the shells I gave back to them
were crushed pretty fine...
bruniquel
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