Grit

[Mimejensen]

I have a dish of grit in the brooder box for the girls - they are 4 weeks old.

I am going thru so much grit because they keep kicking it out of the dish. No. that I am thinking of replacing it with auto purpose sand from Quickcrete

 

[Animals45]

Are they inside or outside?

 

[GC-Raptor]

For Chicks from 2 weeks old to 8 weeks, I mix Chick Grit with Start & Grow feed in a ratio of 1/40, 1.25 pounds to 50 pounds of feed, 10 ounces to 25 pounds of feed. Mix well.
I offer them a Poultry Grit separately at 7 weeks. GC

 

[Mimejensen]

They are inside. I have the grit in a separate bowl and they love to not only eat it
But dust bath in it as well.

 

[Mimejensen]

They are moving this morning to a small coop in the garage and I am wondering if I should put in a small tub for them to dust bathe in. Right now I have to keep filling their grit as they fling it outside of the container and it mixes in with the pine shavings.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Sounds like they really want a dust bath, so maybe try giving them a shallow tub with some combo of dirt, peat moss, sand and/or ash to play with.

 

[aart]

Sounds like they really want a dust bath, so maybe try giving them a shallow tub with some combo of dirt, peat moss, sand and/or ash to play with.

This^^^^
and just sprinkle a bit of grit in there.
No reason to have dish of it..they might gorge on it and clog the crop.

http://www.jupefeeds-sa.com/documents/GraniteGrit.pdf.

I bought about a 2 gallon bag of granite grit from the local mill, they put it in their chicken scratch. Ran it thru a colander with 1/16" holes. Bagged the smaller stuff for the chicks and sprinkle some over a chunk of sod in the brooder during the second week.