Help! I want to sleep tonight!

[A.T. Hagan]

If it's a food you can eat without having to chew then it's likely a food a chick can eat without needing grit. Boiled egg would be one of those.

.....Alan.

 

[BriteChicken]

What do you do for chick grit?

 

[TwoChicks]

I actually saw some "chick grit" and "chicken grit" in little 5 pound bags by Manna at my TSC the other day, along with oyster shells.. If they're on chick crumbles, doesn't that contain grit? We've been giving them bug treats, roly poly's and redworms and they have their chick feed free choice.

So, as I understand it, chick/poultry 'grit' is insoluble granite (dust). And the oyster shell is for calcium purposes only for egglayers, not as a substitute for grit, right? What about roosters and oyster shell? Do they eat it as well?

 

[Dora'smom]

The oyster shell dissolves too readily, so it doesn't really work for grit. Offer the oyster shell free choice, and the hens will eat it, and I think the roosters don't. They self-regulate.

 

[BriteChicken]

I wouldn't know about chick feed containing granite I'm feeding home-made because of allergies so they need grit, and milk along with their feed. So I think I'm just going to crush the grit up with a hammer to make it smaller...

 

[IggiMom]

You don't need to worry about grit.

Your chick starter feed has grit in it, and if you feed them a few things without grit, it won't matter. They should already have the grit in their little gizzards.

Catherine

 

[IggiMom]

I'm sorry, I missed that you were feeding home made.

Sure, you need a little sand. Not so much for the mashed egg, but still, they should have grit in their feed.

Catherine

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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My roosters do eat oyster shells - not alot, not like the pullets or hens, but they do eat some. I do not worry about it hurting them, the feed I feed has very little calcium - Flock Raiser.