fresh food for chicks?

[ginny_e]

When is it okay to introduce fresh foods (mainly veggies scraps) to chicks? Can I just give them a little dirt from the yard (we don't use pesticides or herbicides) for grit?

I've had the chicks for a week now- they have doubled in size and are very active! Their personalities are really coming out. I'm not sure how old they are, I am assuming a couple weeks?

Sorry about the grainy photos, it's really overcast here.

 

[SueT]

Give them dirt from the yard now to help them develop immunity to the cocci that lives in your soil. But they still need grit of the proper size to digest anything other than their feed.
You can give them scraps but don't give too much or you will dilute the nutrition from the feed. And fruits and veggies may cause runny poop....