Where do you buy your grit?

[Willow's Meadow]

I can't seem to find any at the feed store or tractor supply. I am planning on free ranging. But at first when they are in the run do they need grit if they are eating treats as well as feed? Where could I buy it?

 

[Dar]

where you buy your feed should sell it or should be able to order it

you may have to call a more rural feed supply store

 

[Sissy]

When I hard boil some eggs for the flock
I cool them in ice water , peel and the toss the shells into the micro
for a minute to dry them out.
put them into a plastic bag give it
a few rolls with a rolling pin and feed it to the flock giving
them grits and calcium at the same time.
alls well that ends well and
our feathered friend s are just fine.

or pick up some small gravel if you have a gravel drive way
and toss them a few handfulls.
.

 

[Chris09]

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Egg Shell are not a form of grit works good for extra calcium but not a grit... Take a piece of corn and push it up against a egg shell what one brakes/ cracks first? I bet it is the egg shell...

If you cant find grit at your feed mill what you can do is go to Lowes and get a bag of All Purpose Sand it will work just fine.
Don't use Play Sand it is too fine and likes to cake up when wet..

Chris

 

[joebryant]

Go to another feed store. Mine sells 50# bags of granite grit for about $10.

 

[elmo]

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Sorry, but egg shells do not serve as grit. It's a good calcium supplement, but the bird digests it. The grit that they need for their gizzard should be something insoluble/indigestible, like granite chips, gravel, small rough edged stones, etc.

Never offer calcium supplementation to a chicken before she reaches laying age, by the way. They just don't need the extra calcium.

 

[randyandmegs]

I go to the creek on our farm and get sand/gravel/small rocks from there. I read about that tip in one of the Polyface books. Worked fine for my birds. I sprinkled it on some paper then put feed on top of it.

 

[gritsar]

When my chooks were really itty bitty I bought one box of parakeet grit (without added calcium) at walmart.
After that I just took a spade, went out to the edge of our gravel driveway and dug them a pan a dirt with small stones. They'd pick out the "grit" first and then dustbathe in the dirt.

 

[pongoid]

I have three kinds of ant hills around my yard, Big black army ants, regular brown ants and fire ants. Each one has nice size grit for the chickens to forage.

I haven't let them yet because I am afraid the fire ants will hurt them or be poisonous to them.

any ideas.

 

[Cindy in PA]

I can buy chick grit (really small) or pullet grit (at least 1/2 inch pieces) at my feed store really cheap. The manna pro grit at TSC is too expensive, but the 5lb. bags have a size in between the two mentioned above.