Limestone flour

If you get Poultry Spice, this has limestone flour as its base, plus a few vits and mins thrown in. You'd probably need a level egg spoon worth stirred in with their night corn. An egg spoon is approx 2.5mls. Any chemist sells or will give two ended medicine spoons, one with 5ml one end 2.5 the other. A small tub will last eons. I use it for mine every autumn, through winter alongside CLO, but for a different reason.

Hope this helps your question

Hi livinhope
How long have your chucks been in lay?

It could be the moult coming on at this time of year.  Also be careful about giving them extra calcium if the food you are feeding has the correct amount of calcium already added. 

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All the best
Sue

Hi again- If they have been laying for about a year, then it is quite likely they will be about to moult, that July/August/Sept time is the most usual for birds to change their feathers.  In the normal run of things the breeding season is over, the chicks are pretty well feathered and looking after themselves so the adults now have time to take a break and change their feathers ready for winter. 

Good layers will generally get it all over in one go.  Less good will change their feathers a few at a time all through the year, so a tatty looking bird is often a better layer than a fine sleek one  - she has put all her energy into looking good!

It generally takes a few weeks to change feathers, if it is a non-utility traditional breed it will probably go right off lay and if it is late in the year may not start again til the days lengthen in January.  With a hybrid you might still get a few eggs, though with thinner shells.

Check the calcium content of your feed, and always have shell grit available, then they can adjust the quantity to their one needs.  Also dried seaweed meal in a little feeder gives them access to extra minerals if they feel they need them.

I don't use salt in my cooking much, and every so often I long for a boiled egg with salt or a bacon sandwich, once I am salted up again I am fine, I think animals know when they are missing something.  That's probably what leads to so much human obesity nowadays, The goodness we require is not in mass produced food, and our bodies are just crying out for the correct nutrients, while we just think we feel hungry and eat more - never felling satisfied

All the best with them
Sue

It all makes sense now! I have to eat chocolate and feel so much better afterwards 
 

Someone here who doesn't like chocolate.  I like choc cakes, ice cream, drinks but not box or bars of.