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With my last bunch, after I ran out of the box of parakeet grit I took an old pan and went out to the side of our gravel drive and just dug them up a clump of dirt mixed with weeds and small pebbles. I was careful to choose an area where no cars had sat - and left oil, radiator fluid, etc. I just sat the pan in the brooder with the chicks. They would first eat all the weeds, then pick out the pebbles, then dustbath in the leftover dirt.
With my last bunch, after I ran out of the box of parakeet grit I took an old pan and went out to the side of our gravel drive and just dug them up a clump of dirt mixed with weeds and small pebbles. I was careful to choose an area where no cars had sat - and left oil, radiator fluid, etc. I just sat the pan in the brooder with the chicks. They would first eat all the weeds, then pick out the pebbles, then dustbath in the leftover dirt.
