Tips for using shellgrit to enhance your animal’s well-being.
Did you know that shellgrit is very useful for pathways and livestock enclosures such as pens and stables. Shellgrit is highly absorbent and improves the hygiene of your livestock or pet enclosure. It reduces the chance of slipping as it provides grip for the animal!
Shellgrit for Chickens
One of the most common uses for shellgrit is a diet aid for chickens…In order to digest their food correctly, chickens require fine (insoluble or ‘flint’) grit. Of course, chickens don’t have teeth so they use this grit to grind down their food.
Inside the chicken’s gut (proventriculus), food is mixed with acids and digestive enzymes. Grit accumulates in the gizzard, which with a strong muscular action, grinds the food down. So to digest their food correctly, chickens need insoluble grit.
The digestive system of a chicken mechanically and chemically breaks down food and allows nutrients to be absorbed ready for use in the body. If your hens are allowed to free-range then it is likely that they already get enough grit in their diet however, this is not always the case because it depends on the type of ground they are kept on.
Shellgrit also contains calcium, most of which is used to form strong egg shells. The majority of an egg shell is made up of calcium carbonate. A constant supply of Jackson’s shellgrit ensures they have sufficient calcium in their bodies. If insufficient calcium is available, they can lay soft or poor quality egg shells.
Shout out to the person who took it upon themselves to enter our workplace overnight and smash our property with a metal pole.
We are a small, family-run business. Your actions have damaged one of our main work vehicles and appear to have been an attempted vehicle theft, leaving us with limited ability to operate and earn a living.
What you may not realise is:
• In the past, when a local was caught red-handed in our yard by an off-duty police officer, Guy Jackson chose discretion. No charges were pursued, on the condition that what was taken was returned or paid for.
• When our heavy plant-trailer was stolen previously (by a local), a single post was shared more than 400 times and viewed over 48,000 times, which contributed to the offender being identified, arrested, and the trailer being returned after receiving extensive repairs.
I am giving you one opportunity to do the right thing.
Attend Gawler Police Station today and turn yourself in, return our ToolPro toolbox, or advise police that you have it and arrange for it to be returned.
SAPOL have already attended the scene, and CSI are scheduled to attend tomorrow morning. You left a few things behind.
If you come forward today, it is likely to be viewed far more favourably than continuing to waste police and forensic resources.
The public should not have to bear the cost of a senseless break-in, and SAPOL and CSI have better things to be doing than dealing with avoidable property damage.
As it stands, our business is down one major vehicle due to your actions.
Anyone with information relating to the person responsible for this incident is asked to come forward. A reward of up to $3,500.00 is being offered for information that leads to a conviction.
This isn’t how things are done in the South Australia. We don’t treat people, or their livelihoods like this.
Our business is built on hard work, and damaging it shows nothing but selfishness and disrespect.
If you have any sense, you’ll take responsibility now instead of letting this go any further.
Sincerely,
Bill Jackson
Office Administrator
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