Egg shells?

[Nicos]

Just found this and wondered if anyone has tried any of them?

30+ Things to Do with Eggshells • The Prairie Homestead

[Verinda]

The other day I was taking a tray of baked egg shells out of the oven to crush for the hens when one shell dropped on the floor. Before I could get it the dog whizzed over and (despite my protests) crunched it up with great relish. I was quite surprised but having read your very interesting link I realise that Molly is far wiser than me

[vixylix]

I kept a load last year to use for sluggies - then the OH threw them away before I had chance. I didnt bother trying again...

[scarey55]

That's really interesting Nicos. I have used crushed, baked eggshells as a wine fining agent before.
I saw something on here about hanging egg shells on trees to stop peach leaf curl and, don't ask me how, but it seems to work. I might just have been lucky though. I mostly throw them into the compost bin whole, the worms soon make a home in them.

[Nicos]

All our shells get baked, zapped in their own 'coffee' grinder and fed back to the chooks.

Peach leaf curl eh? ( looks like our tree has a one year reprise in that case)

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

My "Old Dear" used em religiously around her "Shady" back drop border to the pond where she grew all her Hosta's etc, keeping the slugs n snails at bay, worked a treat!

[mothhawk]

They certainly work for diarrhoea in animals. Whenever we had a foal with scours, a crushed up eggshell cured it in hours. (But then I found it was much easier to buy a big bag of limestone flour and add it to the brood mares feeds, so their milk was very calcium rich and we never had a problem again).
Limestone flour, and so presumably crushed eggshells too, can also stop bleeding from cuts quite quickly. That tip works on humans and animals. Mix a spoonful of limestone flour into half a cup of water and drink.

[Tjbakewell]

Wouldnt bother personally

[ESBkevin]

Mine get crushed into the compost or powderred and fed into the worm bin. Either way it's good to get the minerals back into the soil.

[Jungle Jane]

I used broken eggshells all around some swedes on a back border it did help a little bit with slugs,but three tiny slugs found gaps I couldn't cover everywhere. A little tip I read is,when you've finished cooking dinner & you turn the oven off,pop the tray of eggshells in the oven while it's still hot,so you're not spending extra money on heating them,cooking them makes them easier to break. I suppose birds would take pieces too,it's difficult for them to find calcium in their diet for egg formation & they have to eat bits of snail shell.

[nellie-m]

All our shells get baked, zapped in their own 'coffee' grinder and fed back to the chooks

I never bake the shells, I only let them dry until they break easily (couple of days or so) and then I crush them on my way to the coop, I find that my hens prefer the larger bits - these always go first, and the smaller and small pieces are left until all the larger ones are gone, but they prefer even small egg shell bits over the shell grit they have access to at all times.

[Darwin.]

I've only ever composted them. This gives me more ideas now.