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How Thin Shells Affect Incubation: Calcium, Phosphorus & Vitamin D for Hens
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send us an email and be sure to include your address so we can respond! The chick pulls much of its calcium out of the eggshell, so what the hen ate before she laid the egg matters long before it hatches. Thin shells, soft shells, or chicks that don't make it: it is not always the incubator and it is not always shipping. Carey and I walk through calcium, phosphorus, and vitamin D, why a hen needs all three, whether more oyster shell helps, whether chickens get vitamin D from the sun, and why vitamins...
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calcium out of the eggshell to use in its own formation. Always an incubator issue. It's not
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When a chicken lays an egg and we incubate that egg, the chick actually will absorb a lot of the calcium out of the eggshell to use in its own formation. Always an incubator issue. It's not always a shipping issue. We've got to go all the way back to the beginning. So there's this new thing that I mean it's no secret that we have some nerds that are
doctors and veterinarians and stuff like that. So with that there's a lot of discussion about vaccines and diseases and is it this Is it that? And really and truly you could post in a big backyard group, one set of symptoms and come up with 50 different diagnoses and probably a thousand different treatments.
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