Wow never saw this, we have one chook that lays soft shell eggs. We were told she's lacking calcium and to feed her shell grit. But she won't eat it. So we mix pollard, shell grit & canola seeds with water to try and entice her to eat the shell grit.
It's pointless really as she comes good for like a day then reverts to soft shelled eggs again. She needs her head chopped off but I don't have the heart to do it.
Also with wing clipping, I never bothered as the area they are in has a 6 1/2 foot high fence. |
I don't know about shell grit etc but I tried to get my chookies to eat pellets by turning them into warm mash with homemade vege stock. They ate a little bit, but it was winter and maybe the warm food was what they tried. My chookies won't pellets.
Any way, I finally let my girls out of their cage to roam around a newly secure part of the yard.
THey love it, the cats don't seem to bother them, and they seem to be eating more food.
I have a little suspicion that they excess food might be feeding the small birds that can now get to the feeder, ?:|
I haven't clipped their wings and, so far, they haven't tried to fly yet.
THey come running when I come into "their yard" becuase sometimes I bring them a handful of worms out of the garden.
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