Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: A composting program at a LARGE cohousing -- How??

[John Beutler (jabeutler]

Yes, people have done this, but I have enough trouble with egg eating 
that I feed them crushed oyster shell instead.

Cheers

JAB

At 06:50 PM 6/3/2009, you wrote:

> "[Chickens] will happily eat pretty much any food scraps, with the exception
>
> of eggshells (you don't want them pecking their eggs, which they will
> do, if given eggshells) ..."
>
> When gas stoves still had pilot lights on the burners, Dad kept a metal
> coffee can over one and saved eggshells in it. Once or twice a week, he'd
> crush the thoroughly dried shells to about the consistency of rolled oats or
> very coarse cornmeal, and put it in a separate small feeder, so the hens
> could take however much they wanted. It served both as calcium
> supplementation, which laying hens need, and grit for their digestion.
>
> Kay
> Wasatch Commons
>
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John Beutler
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