We provide Oyster shell in a hanging pet feeder on the wall of our chicken coop all year round to our layers. They can eat what they want when they want. We just keep the feeder with some in it. It seems to work great.
This year with our pullets we put grit into the hanging feeder for them until they started laying then we switched it to oyster shell.
Dawn A., NE Iowa
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "Straight" <straight6@...> wrote:
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> You probably wouldn't approve of my method of feeding oyster shell. I just buy a big 50 lb. bag, cut the bag open and let them have all they want. It's always surprising to me how much they do take. 20 hens or so will pretty much eat it all over a laying season.
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> There are dispensers that are usually designed to hang on the wall to hold it. They usually hold quite a bit.
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> And in the winter, or if confined, similar dispensers for grit. They need grit to grind their food in their gizzard-----chickens don't have teeth you know.
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> Diane S.
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