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Yes, snails would do the job, and as a bonus the chickens love eating the actual snail, too, not just the shell, so it would be a great snack in addition to the calcium. However, are you going to be able to keep a steady permanent supply, for as long as your chickens are laying? You'll...

I don't know what type of shell that is (if it is in fact shell, and not a thinner piece of rock), so I can't say if and how well it will get digested to give her calcium. It looks harder than the crumbly standard oyster shell, which makes me think that it's not as easily digested and the...

I would stop giving it to her. At this size, it's too small to help with digestion, and there's no point in her filling up on inedible materials that give her no benefit. She can get clogged or malnourished because her body is filling with sand instead of nutrients.

Here’s what poultry grit looks like in the US - granite rocks sold for digestion in the gizzard: And this is what aquarium sand looks like (compared to my hand). Aquarium sand - “gravel” - is coarser, too, which makes cleaning it easier.

There isn't a lot of hand visible in the picture for me to be able to tell what size it is... judging by the folds in your palm, I'd say it's too fine, maybe if you posted the whole picture without it being cropped so tightly, like if we could see the fingers of the hand, that would be more...

It's hard to tell how large the pieces are without having anything next to them for scale... Can you take a picture of some of it in your hand? It looks like coarse sand to me, and the pieces that look like shells look like crushed beach shells like the ones you'd find in beach sand. There are...

P.S. Chickens are stupid and will eat just about anything that resembles food - styrofoam crumbles, nuts and bolts, etc. That's why the pieces need to be large enough to be identifiable for what they are - so she can see that a shell is a shell and not just ground up powder of unknown origin...

Wow, sesame seed! That's way too small to be either grit or calcium. Having no label on the bag is even more confusing. I have no idea then... I'd say ask the person who sold it to you, but that may not be helpful either - often the people hired to work at stores do only that, work at the store...

The grit in the gizzard gets ground down gradually from use, eventually gets too small to be useful and is passed out with the poop. Like how any tool that is used a lot, and does hard friction work, gets ground down over time and gets smaller and smaller. So the birds do need to replenish it...

Let's first figure out what it is that you're calling grit. I know that there are differences in terminology between different English-speaking countries (like the US and UK), and as for other countries like Greece, I have no idea - I guess it depends on where you imported the word from? So...