Small Pet Select Flaked Oyster and Seashell Mix - Calcium Supplement for Chickens & Ducks (10lb)

These flaked oyster shells are top quality. Much better than the chunks that I’ve used in the past. The non flaked kind of look like gravel. You can clearly see these ones were oyster shells before they were flaked. Just what my chickens need!

My hens had thick eggshells when they were getting oysters shells up until a month ago when no one had crushed oyster shell in stock. None of the feed stores within an hour from me have them and no one else on Amazon. They offer a substitute of pebble looking calcium supplement that is made from clams and oysters. My hens do not like it and as a result, some had soft shell eggs and the rest have thin eggshells like the regular white eggs sold at stores. Their eggs size have also gotten smaller! I’m so glad to find Small Pet Select crushed oyster shells. They aren’t the white pebbles, they are the real crushed oyster shells. Bonus, extra “like” on the size of the oyster shells because they are smaller in size than the Scratch n Peck (which is also out of stock) that I usually get or the ones by pound at the feed store. They also look fresher than the ones sold at the local feed store. My hens are, as we speak, eating the Small Pet Select oyster shells and ignoring the clam/oyster pebbles (waste of my money). The only reason i gave 4 stars on value for money is because it’s a bit pricey but then again, it’s what i want and my hens need them so its worth it. I paid the same price for Scratch n Peck organic oyster shells but i like the size of this product better. Hoping this will help get my hens’ eggshells thick and strong again.

My chicks eat it up and leave the other oyster shell alone

Bought this for my female bantam ducks. Bigger pieces were showing up in the eggs. Half if it is a little large, ended up switching to smaller pet bird oyster shells. Couldn't find 100% oyster shell in my local feed stores.

These are the real deal. My hens eat these better than the brand sold at local farm store. And looking at them you can tell they really are oyster shells.

I love this product for my arts and craft shell art filler. Nice size and perfect white color I need -

Finely crushed oyster shell was the first type of oyster shell I ever gave my chickens. They love it and I let them eat as much of it as their bodies want. Then for some reason I couldn't find the finely crushed shell anymore. Let me clarify, the other brands SAID they were crushed, but it was more of a tumbled rock consistency (think aquarium gravel size) and not the smaller, flakier, size they were used to. Being chickens, they turned their beaks up and refused to eat the other stuff. In contrast they have been gobbling this bag of Small Pet Select Oyster Shell right up! Just to be clear, the consistency of this oyster shell is thin, flaky, or more of a shaved oyster shell consistency whereas the stuff they refused to eat was like small tumbled rocks. To describe it another way, when you see this oyster shell you think "Yep, this is crushed up oyster shell" when you see the sub par stuff you think it looks like small white rocks. No wonder my chickens prefer this!

This is oyster shell flake, not pebbles, and my chickens love it and if needed it isn't difficult to break down if the pieces are too large for you chickens. For all that I give it a 4-5 star rating. However, I am knocking a few stars off for the careless way it was shipped. I expected it to be loose in the box because you are ordering it in its original box, but the problem is that it wasn't taped up properly. There was a strip on the top and bottom of the box to keep it from opening, but it wasn't sealed around the sides at all. When the UPS driver handed it to me and I waked from my living room to my kitchen it left a trail of shell behind - and it wasn't a little trail either. After seeing that I wondered how much more of it was lost during transit? I don't have a scale so I couldn't weight it, but clearly a fair amount had to have been lost based on how much trailed behind me in the short distance from my living room to my kitchen. I did contact Amazon about it and they were helpful, but in the future, a note to whoever ships this: You need to fully cover the top and bottom flaps in tape. I don't understand why they didn't. I can't imagine whoever packed this up wasn't seeing that it was coming out of the box.

Really like these oyster shell pieces. Not to big. And the chickens really like them as well. Thank you and will be ordering again

By far the best grit I can give my ducks. It’s jus the right consistency. It’s hard, but can be broken up in my fingertips.

Nice and small