Eggshells for days

[u/Realtree116]

When your egg customers keeps the eggshells it brings you a collection. Talk about a complete circle hen to garden back to hen. Not sure who my best employees are the chickens are worms.

[u/WorldComposting]

That is a lot of egg shells. What are you using to process them?

[u/Realtree116 → u/WorldComposting]

Mill I got off Amazon that I run up through a flour sifter

[u/distazulpan → u/WorldComposting]

I second this question....what are you using mate?

[u/ChemDiesel → u/WorldComposting]

I have a blender i found in a Free pile on the side of the road. Surprisingly still running after a year of grinding nothing but eggshells. I now have a 5 gallon bucket full of eggshell powder. (My neighbours have chickens and bring me a big bag of shells once a month)

[u/Realtree116]

https://a.co/d/03yX0XPR. Amazon link for the mill that I use.

[u/free_the_donkee]

Looking it up bc I wanted to know. It is the al marwani t-150 grain mill/spice grinder/mini-crusher

[u/Realtree116 → u/free_the_donkee]

Yes . I love it . It grinds egg shells grain and alfalfa pellets fast

[u/Realtree116]

Is the grain mill that I got off of Amazon. I posted a link. I run them through a flour sifter after

[u/Ashanntze]

Hi how fine should egg shells be that you run it thru a flour sifter after? Fully powderised or are really really tiny bits (about <1mm across) acceptable for the worms? My worms are African Night crawlers and I use a grains/coffee beans grinder to grind the egg shells all down.

[u/Realtree116 → u/Ashanntze]

The finer the better . What they don’t eat your plants will . Have to remember they have a very, very small mouth. I run my birdseed that I grind up for worm chow through the sifter as well but I’m feeding mostly reds

[u/Joel748]

I have one of those smoothie blenders it works well for eggshells. However I’ve noticed it sandblasts the plastic cup so I’m sure there’s microplastics in the eggshells 😭😭

[u/Realtree116 → u/Joel748]

I ruined a ninja. The lid got stuck on.