What can i do with tons of egg shells?

we have an egg pasteurizing factory and after the eggs have been pasteurized. we're left with tons of egg shells. is there anything productive i can do with egg shells?

What can i do with tons of egg shells?
hope this helps....



Pest Control

I use finely crushed eggshells around seedlings that I transplant into my garden each spring. The shells keep snails, slugs and cut worms away. Apparently, the shells are abrasive to these critters and they won't crawl over them to eat the young plants.



Add Calcium To The Soil

I've heard that tomatoes love them, something about the added calcium in the soil. So when I planted mine this year, I crushed up a bunch of eggshells and mixed them in around the plants.



Seed Starter

You can also use them to start seedlings in. Then when you transplant, just crack the shell and plant the whole thing. Of course this only works for small seedlings.



Eggshell Seed-Starting Pots

To make eggshell seed-starting pots: Crack the tips off several eggshells, reserving the eggs for cooking. Fill shells with a light soil mixture and one or two seeds (nasturtiums were used in the book), and prick drainage holes in the bottom of each shell with a pin. Keep moist and warm. When seedlings have reached a suitable size, plant them directly in the ground, crushing the shell so the roots can emerge.



Deer Deterrent

If you have deer eating any of your garden plants, throw the eggshells out there because deer HATE eggs! Otherwise, they are good for your plants, anyway. Just crush and use in your potting soil or mulch.



Compost And Mix With Birdseed

I crush them up very fine, and put them in my compost tumbler. On occasion, I dump them on the ground in the area where I feed the birds. The birds need grit in their gizzard to help digest food, so they eat the shells.



Make Sidewalk Chalk

Sidewalk chalk! Here's a great link to making the chalk, however after I washed the shells and let them dry, I ground them up in the blender rather than on a rock - much easier!



How to Make Eggshell Chalk



This chalk is for drawing on sidewalks only, not for chalkboards.

You will need:



The shells of 6 eggs

1 tsp very hot water from the tap

1 tsp flour



Wash the eggshells well, so they don't have any egg left in them. Dry them and grind them with a rock on the sidewalk or other concrete surface. Make sure the rock you're using for grinding is clean so you don't get dirt ground in with the eggshells. Grind the eggshells into a fine powder. You'll need one soupspoonful of this powder to make a stick of chalk.

When you have enough powder to make a stick of chalk, sift or pick out any little bits of eggshell that are still not ground up and throw them away. Scoop the powder into a cup or paper towel and bring it into the house for the next part.



Stir the flour and hot water together in a small dish to make a paste. Put the soupspoonful of eggshell powder into the paste and mix well. It may help to mash it with the back of the spoon. Add a few drops of food coloring if you want colored chalk.



Shape this mixture into a chalk stick. Then roll it up in a strip of paper towel and set aside to dry. (Drying takes about three days.) Then just peel the paper off one end and you're ready for some sidewalk art.



For really big sticks of chalk, try making 3 times this recipe, and stuff the mixture into an old toilet paper tube. When it's dry, you can peel away the cardboard as you use it.



Bedtime Tea

Bedtime tea, you wash them, then bake them until brown. Crush and boil as you would tea. Stain and make tea as you normally would. Enjoy a cup before you go to bed, as told me by my grandmother.



Snail Food

Egg shells make good food for pet snails. They need calcium in their diet to maintain their shells.
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Or look for other companies that will use the shells to make other products
Reply:us the egg shells in a compost pile
Reply:some farmers feed them to their chicken
Reply:If you have a garden or compost heap, put eggs and water in blender, crush them fine and throw into garden and compost heap. Or you can use them in your indoor plants too. Add a little weak tea to the mixture and watch the plants thrive!
Reply:in India one of the cosmetic company mgf ' ing tooth paste uses finely crused eggshell powder as filler and abrassive.
Reply:Compost heap, will stink though.
Reply:Offer them to permaculture, gardening groups, etc for their compost eaps and gardens.



Are they useful ground up as for industrial filtering?



I think there is/was a chemical process that made use of them (but that isn't too clear in my memory).
Reply:grind them up and mix it in with the chicken feed,or add them to the compost if you are breeding worms
Reply:You could make an entire scaled down egg shell model of the Battle of Gettysburg.

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