Things you can do with your egg shells

10 amazing things you can do with your egg shells!!!

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When I started breeding chickens I was spending a lot of time doing research on things that I can do with their eggs. After some discussions with more experienced chicken breeders one of the things that I found out which amazed was all the things you can do with you egg shells. Honestly I used to throw them away with the rest of the trash but now I am finding more and more uses for them. This is what inspired us at the typesofchicken.com team to give you this article about the 10 amazing things you can do with your egg shells.

1. One of the first things I used my egg shells for was sprinkling them in my wife`s garden, I crushed them into small pieces and sprinkled them. After some time the number of snails and slugs in her garden was reduced. Apparently those soft bodied critters really don’t like sharp objects like egg shells.

2. Another gardening tip is that egg shells can help you keep your tomatoes from rotting at the bottom end – which I think that everyone who has tomatoes in his garden has encountered this problem. Place egg shells at the bottom of the hole when transplanting the tomatoes and their calcium levels will remain normal and they will have less chances to rot.

3. Egg shells can help your dog get better if it has problems like diarrhea. Gather a certain amount of egg shells then crush them into a powder, pour the powder on the dogs food, it will do wonders for your dogs stool.

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4. Ice cream companies use egg shell powder to their ice cream to give it a calcium boost, I tried it with my homemade ice cream and it doesn’t affect the taste. I recommend this to everyone whose children can`t get their hands of their homemade ice cream.

5. When washing white clothes add a handful of clean egg shells and 2 or 3 slices of lemon, this will keep your white clothes from turning grey. This is a very good trick for everyone who has tried different factory made chemical remedies to keep their white clothes white.

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6. Crush the egg shells and feed them to your chickens, this will do wonders for their calcium level, which will automatically affect their health and behavior. This is doing wonders for my hens, and it saves me trouble of going to the store and buying some factory made calcium pills.

7. Add egg shells in your pile or tumbler, this will add a good amount of calcium to your compost. If you don’t have a compost, turn the crushed egg shells in your garden patch, still much better than throwing them away.

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8. Imagine this, your pan has some food stuck on it and you use your regular pan scrubber or sponge to remove it – when you finish the scrubbing the food is gone but there are scratches on the pan and that is not what you wanted. To avoid this people use crushed egg shells to scrub the pan.

9. This is by far one of the weirdest things I have seen people do with egg shells, they boil it in their coffee. This is especially done for people with diabetes because the egg shells reduce the bitterness of the coffee without them having to add sugar.

10. If your children are bored and they are running and doing stuff that can get them hurt, try to give them some egg shells and give them the idea to make a collage – with some painting and an incentive for a reward, your children will stay quiet for hours.

If you want to have a regular supply of fresh eggs and quality egg shells, we at the typesofchicken.com team recommend that you use this chicken coop manual for yourself it has done wonders for us.