Chick-sized grit - photo

[Amiga]

There are three reasons for posting this:

1) making sure I got the right item - supposed to be for my ducklings
2) showing other newbies so they will know what the chick grit looks like
3) first time posting with a photo

(a little out of focus, but I think it's passable)

 

[Cats Critters]

Where did you get it? The chick grit from TSC is red, and the adult grit is that color. But that might just be TSC.

 

[Amiga]

Got it at the local Agway. It's granite.

Does the size look right to you?

 

[Goat_Walker]

WHen I first stareted with ducklinhgs my mom went in to get some duckling feed and she came home with that. I opened it up and was shocked - I was like " Im not feeding my ducks rocks!! what freak would do that!?!?!" Then I found this place and laughed at my self for dumping the whole bag in the burn pile

 

[Amiga]

Goat-Walker,

what a story!

Well, here I am, asking you all if I got the right kind of grit. I understand about crops instead of teeth, but I was thinking that those itty bitty ducklings would need something that looks more like sand.

This looks awfully big for grit for a "baby!"

 

[silkiechicken]

I find most my baby chicks at least, can swallow things twice the size of their eye balls no problem. In adults, if it fits between their beaks, they will try as hard as they can to get it down their throats.

 

[10ducks]

That looks like the same size as what I get for my ducklings, and they do fine on it. I sprinkle a little on their food starting at about 2 weeks. Once my ducks are out free-ranging, I don't give grit, because they pick up their own. But after about a month of snow this winter and no thaws, and with the pond iced over, it occurred to me that they weren't eating anything other than the food I gave them, so I started sprinkling the same granite grit on their food again. So that's a question to piggyback on yours: is chick-sized grit too small once ducks are grown?