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Agreed. But if they are living on wood shavings, they are not only eating chick starter. They will eat some wood shavings. Most don't eat enoough wood shavings to cause a problem, with or without grit. If they run out of food, they may eat a lot of wood shavings.
If a young chick dies because of an impacted gizzard, you will not know the cause. You will think it just was not strong enough to thrive. To me, their system was set up to operate with grit so I provide it, even though I raise them on wire, not wood shavings. I don't provide a large continuous supply of grit. If they run out of food, they can also eat enough grit to cause problems, so your advice to make sure they don't run out of food is important for reasons other than them gorging themselves on food.
Agreed. But if they are living on wood shavings, they are not only eating chick starter. They will eat some wood shavings. Most don't eat enoough wood shavings to cause a problem, with or without grit. If they run out of food, they may eat a lot of wood shavings.
If a young chick dies because of an impacted gizzard, you will not know the cause. You will think it just was not strong enough to thrive. To me, their system was set up to operate with grit so I provide it, even though I raise them on wire, not wood shavings. I don't provide a large continuous supply of grit. If they run out of food, they can also eat enough grit to cause problems, so your advice to make sure they don't run out of food is important for reasons other than them gorging themselves on food.
