Chicken grit?

Grit is not something your chicks really need. Mine all do great without it. All grit is, is a low protein food. Your chick started will have way more protein and be way better for your chicks.

Your chickens may not need it - do they free range?  Free range chickens find their own stones and use that to help digest their food.  If the only food they eat is chicken feed you do not need grit - but if you feed them left over food you might want to offer it free choice.  It is not expensive and lasts FOREVER (or so it seems).  Just follow the directions on the back, or put some in a bowl and allow them to eat it as they wish.  Others probably have a better input on this.

 

EDIT:  If it is for chicks you would need a special chick grit - but I've heard that chicks don't need it.  For chicks I wouldn't get it.

I thought I needed grit at first, too, but turns out, if they're only eating chick feed they won't need it. Until, that is, you feed them bigger things (treats, etc), only counting feed if it is pellets. You may want to have some on hand just in case, though, because they won't take it if they don't need it (of course, chicks will play with it, though). Be sure to note that there is chick grit and then there's grit for older birds, not sure where the age dividing line is.

Eating the starter they don't need the chick grit which is smaller than regular grit, however with them eating the mealworms it would be a good idea. It's cheap, my local feed store gives a price break if you buy 10 lbs, was about $4. A small sack full. Might want to give it to them in small amounts till they get their fill of it. Heard too much can cause an impacted crop. They will eat it like crazy at first.

I don't know how my chicks have survived the 5 weeks they have been around ... lol .... I have sand in the bottom of my brooder to level it (old wooded wagon) and pine shavings on that .... never used paper towels ... they have eaten the.sand since I've had them and. I have been giving them worms for weeks ... and they are heLthy and happy as all get out ...... sand = grit if someone was wondering ....