Recycle Egg Shells by feeding them to the birds

Learn how to recycle your eggs shells by feeding them to the birds in your backyard in order to help strengthen the eggs they lay this spring

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• backyard
• birds
• breasted
• eggs
• green
• grosbeak
• living
• nesting
• nuthatches
• recycling
• repurpose
• rose
• shells

[Noz7777]

do you have to use fossil fuels to dry your eggs? maybe you could just lay them out in the sun?

[SmellLikeDirt]

I bake them when I have the oven on for other reasons. I have never tried using the sun. If you try it, let me know how it works.

[SmellLikeDirt]

my worms love them too. I find them in a ball inside the eggs a lot. But in the Spring, a better use for them is giving them to the birds so you'll have plenty of healthy babies.

[GOP4USA]

What temp setting is best? And for how long?

[Jerrid3]

Interesting tip. I learned to put them in your garden so the plants and thus us can get the calcium back. But this is nice too. I wonder if this would be a good trick for laying hens to get even better eggs for human consumption...

[lawndaisies]

What an excellent idea! I'm going to do this!

[mrvot]

Cool.. I'm guna try this :)

[Wizechris1]

Don't feed them to birds!!! lol. You use them for your vegetable gardens. Preferably tomatoes to prevent blossom end-rot.

[Noz7777]

Excellent - good use of resources! I'm afraid I'm too set in my ways, I always just put them in my worm farm, which is easiest for me:) But I do often wonder about where my shell grit comes from.

[unccrazy333]

cool!