This is grit that you can buy from the food store.
It’s oyster shell grit, ground up oyster shell, and it’s specially designed for birds
like chickens.
I like to use the fairly fine ground, although it comes in larger pieces.
The other thing you can do to feed your chickens some calcium is use egg shells.
What chickens use the calcium for is to make egg shells and egg shell is just about pure
calcium.
So an obvious source of calcium is the egg shells left over from cooking.
But before you feed egg shells to your chickens – you do not want to give them the idea
of eating their own eggs, so what I do first is cook the egg shells in a little grill oven
until they don’t smell or taste like raw eggs any more.
Now, here’s some egg shells.
They’re just the ones that we’ve cracked the eggs and used the eggs for our cooking
and dinners and things.
And then, so that they don’t get the idea that what looks like an egg shell is a good
source of calcium, I grind up
the egg shells.
Then because I never have enough egg shells, I add a bit of the purchased oyster shell
grit, and mix it all together, and there we have a good source of calcium for the chickens.
Of course they spread it everywhere, but since I didn’t pay a lot for it, it doesn’t
really matter.
All that calcium is really good for giving them nice strong shells.
I hope you enjoy watching my videos about chickens.
Thanks for watching.