Calcium for chickens

Why Calcium? Eggs, eggs and more eggs! Seriously though, calcium is important. While it helps with egg production, and I am very excited about our hens beginning to lay, there are more serious reasons why you want to avoid a calcium deficiency. Calcium deficiency will effect your hens bone development and cause conditions like "Cage Layer Fatigue". When the diet does not have adequate calcium, the hen will use calcium from its other bones. The weakened bones are damaged and the hen becomes…

Here in central Texas, the heat and humidity can be a brutal combination. Some signs of heat stress in chickens are: panting (chickens do not have sweat glands, so they pant to help cool their bodies down through respiration), spreading wings away from th

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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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Eggshells are the highest natural source of calcium in the world! But think of all the calcium it takes to make that tough shell! Not to mention that chickens need a bit of calcium for their bones too... If hens don't get enough calcium, their eggshells will get thinner, and they may start having problems which can all be fixed and prevented by having more calcium in the hens' diet. In this article we discuss using eggshells as a calcium source for your chickens.

An egg shell is made up of calcium carbonate and small amounts of protein. The kicker here…a 1/2 teaspoon of crushed eggshell offers 1,000-1,500mg of calcium!! ...and if you have laying hens, you get egg shells for free...sort of... #calcium #calciumforchickens #eggs #egglayers #strongereggshells #chickens #hens #chickencare #hobbyfarming #hobbyfarm #farmer #chickenfarmer

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Grit, calcium, corn for the chickens! Grit is important for digestion and they use a lot of calcium to make egg shells so calcium is important! Corn is more a treat!

Here are some things to feed and not feed to your chickens. Vegetables are a great way for chickens to get extra vitamins and nutrients.

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Give your chickens this👇🏻 Chickens absolutely NEED these two things: 🐓Calcium & Grit 🐓 These both are super important to a chickens diet. CALCIUM -...

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We have Ameracana's about a year old and recently have noticed that one or two of the hens have been laying eggs with calcium bumps on the shell. Is this...