will this work for chick grit?

[sydney13]

will finch grit work for chick grit?

 

[BarredBuff]

I think it would.

 

[NeeleysAVLChicks]

You might want to double check it for oyster shell. I got finch grit from the pet store because I couldn't find chick grit anywhere around me and it had a significant percentage of oyster shell and apparently the extra calcium isn't good for the little ones.

 

[sydney13]

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ya it does have oyster shells.does this mean i should wait till they are laying to give it to them? i guess i should have read the ingredients before i bought it

 

[NeeleysAVLChicks]

Eh, someone else may be able to chime in, but I've heard that the extra calcium is bad for their kidneys (or liver, maybe?) I would wait just to be sure. You could always just use a fine pebbly sand of some sort.

 

[Beckyinma]

I have a plastic take out container burried to ground level in my brooder, filled with regular all purpose sand and as soon as my new chicks gobble up a worm or cricket they go straight for the sand box and start scratching around & eating the grit. Seems to work.

You can see the box in the bottom of this pic of our "Franken-brooder"

 

[elmo]

Take a mortar and pestle, put in a bit of regular chicken grit, and grind it with the pestle into smaller bits. Voila! Chick grit.

 

[redturtle]

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hey ...good idea....never thought of that

 

[Yardbirds286]

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How old are your chicks? Nice brooder by the way!

 

[sydney13]

i put some pigeon grit in a strained so that now i have some very small little pebbles, would this work instead?