Plant thinnings and chicks?

[jenkassai]

Doing some gardening this morning, and I need to thin my carrot seedlings. They are very fine and tiny, and I would like to give them to my chicks, but my chicks are not yet eating grit. I don't think they are something I would need to chew, but I just don't know about the chicks

I have 4 chicks that will be one week old tomorrow, and 3 chicks that will be 2 weeks old tomorrow.
Should I give them the seedlings? Should I give them a little bit of starter grit and then give them the seedlings? Should I just toss the seedlings (we don't compost yet)?

Thx!!

 

[Happy Chooks]

I would give them to the chicks. My chicks (and adults) go crazy for carrot greens. If you have a lot of greens, you could always get some chick grit. (or go searching for tiny pebbles to offer to them)

 

[Ridgerunner]

I personally give mine grit by their third day. That way their systen gets set up so I can give them things like this if I want to.

I just use sandy dirt. You can give them a bit of construction sand, not play sand. Play sand is too fine and smooth to do any good. I often scrape up some small pebbles and coarse sand from my gravel driveway.