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How to use old egg shells for better gardens and back yard chickens!

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Stoney Ridge Farmer

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This project demonstrates how to create a custom organic calcium supplement using eggshells, which can be utilized for both chicken health and plant nutrition. The process involves collecting, drying, and crushing eggshells for easy application in chicken coops and garden beds, specifically mentioning its benefits for preventing blossom end rot in tomatoes.

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Here's my pro tip. This is eggshells. So, give you a little look at this. These are my eggshells that I collect from what I cook. Okay? So, the chickens lay the eggs. Uh, they need calcium. Chickens will lay egg, lay egg, lay egg, lay egg, and then their calcium will get low, and that'll make your eggshells thin, and that'll make them easier to break, and thus your chickens will peck their eggs and consume their own eggs. But if we keep this in our garden beds and in our chicken coupe, you hear me crunching it. That's just crushing it. That's all I do. So, I put my eggshells. I'll crack them. I'll put them in that bowl. And then once they dry, I'll take my hand and just go in here and crunch them up. Cool. A lot of times, our soil is lacking in calcium, and so are the chickens lacking in calcium. So, if I put this over here in the coupe and I just grab myself a little handful, I don't have to go buy oyster shell. I just throw that in there, maybe a couple little handfuls, and the chickens will peck all that up and eat it all up. Now, where I'm going to plant my tomatoes and stuff for next year, this will help with blossom and rot. I'll just sprinkle this into my garden beds and then the chickens will come back in and they'll scratch it into the garden bed. So, give her a little sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle.

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