Thank you for joining our happy family. We are here to offer help in any way. As for grinding the pellets down, I think it would be more effective to purchase whatever feed you think will work, and then mixing in the current feed with it. Just my 2 cents.
I normally buy pellets, bags of sunflower seeds, dried beans, oats, wheats, and other things, then mix it all up in a trash can (dedicated only to their feed). Chickens will eat what they like...
Been feeding ground corn, wheat berries, pellets, kitchen scraps, watermelon, young chicks only six months old, switched from ground feed to pellets, apparently they don't care for pellets. Gonna go back to ground because 9 out of 10 chicks were laying steady sine they were 4 1/2 months old.
Oh, I didn't realize that we were talking about young chicks. I serve my hatchlings the grounded pellets as well since I am concerned that the regular pellets would pose a choking hazard at this stage in their lives.
