Cement becomes pretty much inert after a while. Most of its toxicity is related to alkalinity unless you breath it. "Toxic effects noted in animals include, for acute exposures, alveolar damage
with pulmonary edema" if they eat the raw cement but yours is already hydrated in the papercrete.
Birds eat rocks to grind the food in their gizzards so they would be absorbing some amount of minerals naturally anyway. Calcium, one of the main components in cement, is what egg shells are made of. The papercrete I have inadvertently tasted has always been salty - how do your eggs taste?
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On 1/23/2011 2:09 PM, JUDITH WILLIAMS wrote:
I can't stop my chickens from eating my papercrete blocks. Not the ones I am using to build with but some odd ones I used as landscape walls and such. They seem to be suffering no ill effects and are laying well. So should I worry?
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