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^^^^^^Amen! The girls went onto shavings last night. I said, "Alright, Girls, you're going to live on shavings like all the other chickens! Now, do the right thing!" They are alive and happy this morning. My chickens are pets and they cause me great anxiety when I worry about them, and...

OK, thanks.

chickcrew, I gave them the grit because the feed store guy loaded the wrong feed - huge crumbles of grower/starter. It only has 18% protein! Everyone's poo got really dry and hard. Also, the steady diet of paper towel concerned me. I thought maybe the grit would help move these things...

I guess I'll put them on the shavings. I think that's what the majority of you do, and your chicks live. Just checking to see if there were any objections...

They are two weeks old tomorrow. I started them for a few days on paper towel-covered pine shavings. One had a slow crop, so I put them on paper towels only, for fear of them eating shavings. Now they are eating the paper towels. I've given distracting things like dirt/grass clods from the...