Feeding Chicks

[momof6walker]

My chicks are 2 weeks. I take them outside a few hours a day and let them wonder around. Since they are eating stuff of the ground and such do they need grit?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

It depends on if there is appropriately sized particles of hard stone. They probably don't need it but without looking at your soil, I don't know.
Chick grit for that age is like small sand. At about 4 weeks they need something larger.

Edited for clarity.

 

[Hannah Nichole]

I have read that if they are allowed outside now and again they don't need grit, but I like to give them clumps of grass with the soil still attached to it as well. They really enjoy it, and that serves as grit too. I personally have never given my chicks commercial grit.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I think I wrote my response in a manner that didn't imply what I meant. I meant they probably don't need grit at that age if having access to soil.
Whenever I have provided grit, they consumed it voraciously. It's cheap and they won't overeat it so it doesn't hurt to provide it.

 

[momof6walker]

Thank you!