{"id":22454,"date":"2017-08-30T06:24:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T06:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=22454"},"modified":"2017-08-30T06:24:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T06:24:10","slug":"ground-egg-shells-for-the-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=22454","title":{"rendered":"Ground egg shells for the girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Dandelion has been laying thin shelled eggs I thought I would feed the girl’s egg shells back to them to boost their calcium. They have grit and crushed oyster shell in a hopper that they can help themselves to at any time but this will give them a bit of extra calcium.<\/p>\n

I put the broken egg shells on parchment paper in a tray and\u00a0then in to the oven on low for about half an hour. It is really just to dry the egg shells out so that they will crush easily.<\/p>\n

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Eggs shells straight from the oven<\/p><\/div>\n

I then crush the egg shells with a pestle and mortar and then mix them into a dish of mash. I know that the girls love a dish of mash and it means that they are getting a healthy treat as it’s their normal pellets mixed with water and then the egg shells added.<\/p>\n

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Egg shells ground up<\/p><\/div>\n

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Egg shells mixed with mash<\/p><\/div>\n

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Five little girls round the dish<\/p><\/div>\n

I love the way the bigger girls seem to take on a parental role and allow the little girls to have their share rather than any chasing away.<\/p>\n

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They enjoy a treat that is good for them<\/p><\/div>\n

They love this and they all got a share of it. By the end of the day the dish was empty. This means they have all had their extra helping of calcium. Even if it doesn’t help, it won’t do any harm so there is nothing to lose by giving them this and I know that they have enjoyed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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