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Sand, especially beach sand, will be too small of a particle size to function as grit for chickens. They need larger size pieces, think if a green pea was crushed into 5-6 pieces, that would be a good size for adult birds. Very coarse sand will work for chicks, but once they get older they will...

Of course! I will try that. My favorite feed store stopped carrying granite grit and now only has limestone grit, which I don't want because of the extra calcium. The other feed store wanted to sell me scratch, saying it was the same as grit. We have a river very nearby that surely has a gravel...