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UncleYoder

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4. It depends.

Reply to Duer 157099 (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 01:33 PM

Mar 2013

Wild birds or truly free range chickens/turkeys will not. That nest and it smelly broken eggs is a lunch horn for all predators. Momma will take the babies away from it as soon as possible. In a pen, with limited access to the outside, they will eat the shells eventually.

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Eggshells are for the birds... and that's no yolk ! Put those Easter eggshells to good use ! [View all] agracie Mar 2013 OP

Doi not know that. Will do. OffWithTheirHeads Mar 2013 #1

Most birds will disolve calcium from their own bodies to reroute it to the shells they produce. talkingmime Mar 2013 #2

Do hens eat the eggshells after their chicks hatch? Duer 157099 Mar 2013 #3

It depends. UncleYoder Mar 2013 #4

Farm supply stores sell bags of crushed oyster shells to feed to chickens. nt agracie Mar 2013 #5