when can I let them outside to eat bugs/grass????

[cjeanean]

I have 30 cornish cross that are about 3 weeks old. I want to put them outside on the grass outside, but I want to make sure that it's okay for them to eat grass and bugs before I do so. I'm going to be providing sand for grit for them. When can I let them out?

 

[panner123]

If the temperture is warm to hot, let them have all the bugs they can eat. The grass shouldn't hurt them either as long as you give them grit.

 

[gritsar]

cjeanean, you'd be surprised at how fast chicks learn to find their own "grit". Mine discovered it under the hibiscus bush and that's the first place they head. I still offer it every other day in their brooder besides.

 

[jaku]

My Cornish X's have been out in my pasture pen since they were three weeks. I give them no grit.

 

[cajunlizz]

Quote:
OK , I am reading " GRIT " on several post . PLEASE explain , VERY NEW to this chicken STUFF . LOL

 

[dacjohns]

Grit, probably just what you think it is. Gritty stuff like tiny rocks or big specks of sand. The chickens need it to grind up the nonprocessed food they eat like vegetable matter of all sorts. Corn, other seeds, weeds, grass, vegetable trimmings from your kitchen. Also animal matter like insects, ticks, worms.

 

[BayCityBabe]

Is there some grit in the starter food?

 

[cjeanean]

no, I've got them on gamebird starter, 22% protien

 

[dacjohns]

I don't know of grit being in starter food. You can buy little bags of grit and sprinkle it on the feed.