Raw Chicken Egg Shells

L in Ontario · Post by **L in Ontario** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:37 am

fairestfinches wrote:I'll let you know if they seem to have thicker shells or nor since they are cage free and semi-free range.
Sean

Are they running all over your house?

fairestfinches · Post by **fairestfinches** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:16 pm

Good question Liz.

Nah,

I built them a house of their own out back and put up a 10 foot tall fence to keep them in and predators out. This is the inner perimeter.

The outer perimeter is a regular fenced in yard area for our dogs. I let the chickens free range inside the yard with the dogs.

Sean

karthik_s9 · Post by **karthik_s9** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:41 am

Thanks Sally, Sean and Liz.

Sally wrote:When I speak of mineral cups, I just mean the little cups or dishes I hang in each cage in which to place minerals--oystershell grit, eggshells, etc. I use a commercial mineral mix right now, but I don't know what your resources are like. You don't need to give gravel to finches, like you do for budgies, but they like mineral mixes. Oystershell is excellent for calcium, if you can't find it at a pet supply place, look into stores that sell feed for poultry.

Below is the type of oystershell what we get it here in my place and also here we don't get/find any ready minerals products, so we need to make one on our own in the home for our birds.

fairestfinches wrote:Sorry for not responding sooner. Been working on getting the store ready for the Grand opening and then actually opening the new location.

Looks like the steps you mentioned will work for sterilizing egg shell just fine. It also look like you got a couple of other tips that as well.

You moight consider telling the other forum to come over to the finch side and see what we are cooking.

Sean

Nice to hear about your shop grand opening and hope you are still enjoying the wonderful and memorable events of the occasion.

My personal understanding from Budgie breeders is that, since the chicken egg shell membrane is of organic in nature, so we can't preserve the egg shells with membrane for long time. If we don't want/plan to preserve it for long time then we can serve the egg shells with membrane.

But here I learnt from Sally, that we can even preserve the eggshells prepared with membrane too for long time.

Is there any time limit after which we shouldn't use these preserved egg shells with membrane to our birds which will harm them.