Done! Thanks. She did great.
Because you are a responsible chick keeper. Many people have no idea what chicks can and cannot digest, so they are apt to slip the babies delicacies such as scratch grain, bread, pop corn, etc, and their unsupervised toddlers have been known to drop bites of their Happy Meal into the brooder. These are the chicks that could use grit as an insurance policy against ignorance.
My worry was that they are trying to eat their bedding. Don't hey need grit then to break it down?
Nope. My chicks have scratched there bedding which were chopped straw. But they aren't able to swallow it. They end up nibbling on there food that got spilled in the straw.
It depends. Mine are brooded outdoors on the run litter, so they do pick up a lot of different bits of whatever's underfoot and eat it. So in my case, as I know they'll actively eat the litter, I want them to err on the side of caution and provide grit.
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I wondered about that also, never provided grit to new chicks until they go out to the yard at 8 weeks. All healthy chicks so far.
