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[carikermoon]

What age do they need to be before giving them chick grit and how do I go about giving it? Mix in their food? I'm new to this and haven't found much on the grit guidelines! Thanks in advance!

It is my understanding that as long as they are eating chick feed, there is no need to supplement with chick grit. Once they start foraging outside, then I put a little bowl of chick grit out for them to help digest the wild bugs they are finding.

 

[vero89nica08]

They eat June bugs in the evenings when they fly thro the kennel they're in right now. Should I worry with it yet or wait till they're out on the ground when they're bigger?

 

[RoosterCogburn7]

What age do they need to be before giving them chick grit and how do I go about giving it? Mix in their food? I'm new to this and haven't found much on the grit guidelines! Thanks in advance!

I do it from the day I get them. I use medicated chick feed and chick grit.

 

[RoosterCogburn7]

I know I have read about this topic before. Are pine shavings okay for the brooder? Seems like there was a debate over pine or cedar. I should never have given my chicken books away. If I would have known I was going to loose my memory, I would have kept them. Or if I knew I was going to be brooding chicks.

I use pine shavings from the feed store.

 

[hensfortherapy]

It took me an hour and a half to catch my two new chicks I took outside to play for awhile in today's lovely weather. Last time they are going out for awhile. Either they got extremely fast or I am too old and decrypted to catch chicks.

 

[ScenicViews]

Ha Ha @hensfortherapy.. I went to check on my chickies this morning and 3 escaped the hen house.... I spent 1/2 hour trying to get them back in! Must be the weather for it. Spring hinges go on this weekend! Round and round and round the house we went! Home alone and no one to help corral them! Yikes!

 

[carikermoon]

It took me an hour and a half to catch my two new chicks I took outside to play for awhile in today's lovely weather. Last time they are going out for awhile. Either they got extremely fast or I am too old and decrypted to catch chicks.

Ha Ha @hensfortherapy..  I went to check on my chickies this morning and 3 escaped the hen house.... I spent 1/2 hour trying to get them back in!  Must be the weather for it.  Spring hinges go on this weekend!  Round and round and round the house we went!  Home alone and no one to help corral them!  Yikes!

Mealworms! That's the answer to this problem. They act like Happy Treats mealworms are chicken crack. Except for one of mine, who really REALLY wants some but stays just out my reach, the bigs and the littles run to me when I call them because of the mealworms.

 

[Sunflowergirl]

What age do they need to be before giving them chick grit and how do I go about giving it? Mix in their food? I'm new to this and haven't found much on the grit guidelines! Thanks in advance!

You can give it to them right off the bat. Don't mix it in, feed it separate, free choice.
Note that a momma would be taking her babies out right away and showing them bugs, seeds, grass. So, I give my babies grit right away and even start giving them finely chopped up greens.

 

[Sunflowergirl]

They eat June bugs in the evenings when they fly thro the kennel they're in right now. Should I worry with it yet or wait till they're out on the ground when they're bigger?

Are you asking about giving them grit? Go ahead and give them some, especially if they are already able to get a hold of bugs.

 

[carikermoon]

Are you asking about giving them grit?  Go ahead and give them some, especially if they are already able to get a hold of bugs.   

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