When to start feeding grit.

[Miss717]

Right now I just give my chicks starter, but I'd like to give them treats. I've heard everything except starter yogurt or boiled eggs they need grit?

 

[billfields]

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Mine are 6 days old. Yesterday I gave them grit---used the stuff for parakeets---and they went nuts for it (after having ignored the boiled egg everyone says they would love). I figure if they were living as chickens were made to live in the world they would have had some by this time following a momma hen around. They are fine and this morning I gave them a bit of chopped up lettuce from the garden which was also a big hit. But that boiled egg just didn't cut it.