Up heah we feed oyster shells to chickens to make the egg shells harder.
Maybe we could burn egg shells to make lime?

If you can get lime from oyster shells they must contain lime.  How do
oysters make shells?  And where do they get their lime?  Maybe it would be
more efficient to get your lime at the source.  For that matter, how do
hens make egg shells?  I have butchered many hens and have never identified
the "egg shell making" organ.  Ruth

PS:  Questions like this happen either when I have trouble falling asleep
at night or sit too long on the john in the morning.




At 4:06 PM -0400 4/27/07, Brian Robinson wrote:
Tomorrow we will give the burning of oyster shells in the kiln a second
try. We have built a new kiln at Ashantilly, a c.1810 plantation just up
the road from my house in Darien, Georgia. Wanted to let y'all know about a
couple of improvements we made this time around.

Brian
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