Limestone flour quantity?

[dozey1]

Can anyone tell me how much Limestone flour i should give the girlies an dhow often please. Thanks

[sheena]

I only give it to the girl's when getting softies.

But a general rule of thumb is a teaspoon per bird. You can mix it in with some porridge, or dip grapes into it and feed them to the girl's.
Or, you can do as I do and spray a fine mist of water over some pellets and add the flour to the feeder, so the flour sticks to the food. Mix it around and "voila"!

[Flummery]

If your girls are laying strong shelled eggs I wouldn't give it. If you have any soft or fragile shelled eggs, try moistening the feed with a few drops of cod liver oil and adding a teaspoon or two of the flour to that. The oil not only makes the flour stick to the pellets, it gives them vitamin D which helps them to absorb and use the calcium.

[dozey1]

Thank both.

[Suechooks]

I give a heaped teaspoon between 10 hens every day- but only cos they're ex-batts. My younger hens don't get/need it. It has certainly improved the shell quality when there are shells to improve it hasn't altered the shell-less ones which they lay occasionally.