[Sca-cooks] Re: eggshells

[bruniquel]

>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