Worried about egg binding

[Sprocket]

My female zebra won't eat the egg granules (Hagen I believe) or actual eggs I've provided...is there anything else I can provide her? Mineral blocks, cuttlebone...?

[L in Ontario]

You can/should have cuttlebone available in the cage at all times and you can try mixing a little of the dry eggfood granules in with the moister fresh hardboiled egg (including the shell crushed up). Good luck!

[Sprocket]

Thank you, will do! I wasn't sure if finches ate cuttlebone.

[B CAMP]

I keep a small cup of crushed oyster shell grit and i put crushed egg shell in it from hardboiled eggs they eat when they want

[Sally]

I use Hagen's egg granules, too, and I found my finches would not eat them. So now I grind them up in a coffee grinder, mix them in with my eggfood, and voila--the birds scarf it down! I find that my finches don't like anything unless it is very tiny, or they can work at it to make it smaller.

[Ursula]

My finches won't touch the cuttle bone. Some of them do eat the crushed egg shell that they have available at all times, but I anyway use a liquid calcium supplement plus vitamin D once a week in all their water sources.

[Sprocket]

I've noticed the females poo has gotten a bit more white in it lately (ever since I introduced the egg shells). Does this mean she has eaten some? It's definitely moved around and looks eaten.

I'll try crushing the egg granules down, great idea!