Feeding chickens grit early enough? - AMA S7:E2 

playground sand is bad...too fine. Chickens have delicate respiratory systems...Get construction sand for dust baths and add diatemacous earth for mites and bug prevention.

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Good questions. Also here in Florida. I have a 4 week old chick that was abandoned by mama hen. I have no clue what to feed this little one! How do you feed grit to a baby chick? Do I just put in a bowl, or do I mix it in commercial chick food? I have no idea how to even offer grit. Thanks!

@@FlourishingLove I have 3 week old chicks. My first time. I feed them in one dish start and grow crumbles poultry feed. In another dish (saucer) chick grit , insoluble crushed granite from tractor supply. I did this from day one. My chicks are fully vaccinated so I bought non medicated feed(important) I assume yours is not vaccinated so buy the medicated. I cooked carrots and diced up small, the loved it. I also diced up hard boiled egg, they loved it. I also gave them diced up watermelon. Grit is needed for food digestion. Treats are mealworms, which I crush up slightly in my hand. Don’t over due treats, they get all their nutrition from the start and grow. Hope you got this in time to help ❤ Best wishes.

@@TearDrop455 Thank you, Diane. We had her here for 9 days. Today, we took her to a local farm after making arrangements with the farm owner. We simply don't have the facilities to take care of a hen. We did buy the starter/grower crumbles, and she loved them. Also, set her up in a dog crate out in the yard with the bottom of the crate removed so she could forage. She also loved that. She had grit in a bowl, but I don't think she ever ate any of them. I would sprinkle them into her pellet crumbles, but who knows if she got any. But by going outside to dig in the dirt and eat bugs in the dirt, I have to assume that she got some grit, naturally. She seemed to do well on them. Our story with her is that a wild neighborhood hen got stressed out when 5 roosters surrounded her and the solitary chick. The roosters chased the chick away from mom. Hours later, mom was still out there with the roosters, and ultimately simply left, leaving the chick whistling for her mama. So, we brought her in. I was panicked that night, and watched as many videos as I could trying to figure out what to feed her. I think we did alright! I hope so. She grew a bit in the 9 days. I'm hoping she'll fare well in her home with other chickens and plenty of room to dig and eat bugs, as well as the homemade feed the farmer makes. It was already difficult to let her go. We got attached quickly. She was very cute!

@@FlourishingLove what a great story, thanks for caring for her. Glad she made it and has a home 🥰 Good job. I never thought I’d love a chicken, but here I am with 4 buff Orpingtons (the friendliest!) they have stolen my heart ❤️ They’re so affectionate.🐥

Either you have never had chicks in a brooder box, stock tank, or tote in the house, garage, or barn, or you have a very dirty brooder, or house. I live in Wyoming where it's also very rocky, and spring storms kill chicks, and I knew since when I was a little kid, more than 60 years ago. That if your chicks can't access the ground, you have to give them sand or they'll likely die. And that once they move out with the flock, they find their own. I never heard of chicken grit for many more years, but by then I had butchered so many domestic and wild game birds that I knew exactly why and where it goes. Come to think of it there are a lot of wild birds in Wyoming, even Prairie Chickens, but domestic chickens don't survive here without human intervention and know how. That's not saying chickens are dumb, just that most, cough, people are smarter.

I dont mean the birdcage shellsand

it's ok.Chivkens Have to eat rocks to help them digust the food they eat or els the food might rott in there crop wich isnt good

Nope, they do not. Especially if you have ever run over that ground with chickens before. They will pick out all the correct size rocks, and if you’re not sprinkling it on your lawn every year, then you probably don’t have enough. There’s no substitute for supplementing them with the correct size grit.

“ I keep my video short and straight to the point“ What he actually does is rambles on and doesn’t even answer the question.

If you listen to the video you would realize he said in the first couple of days at the start of the video.

Raw apple cider for a natural antibiotics

RAW UNFILTERED apple cider vinegar...1/3 cup to 1 quart water for chicks. very good probiotics!

Sugar in the first 3 days for energy, then in their lifetime every 15 days give 3 days of ACV for natural antibiotics.

"So I start feeding grit to my chickens really early on, like the first few days." Direct quote. So a few days old.....