Backyard Chickens for Beginners: Getting the Best Chickens, Choosing Coops, Feeding and Care, and Beating City Chicken Laws by R. J. Ruppenthal

Author:R. J. Ruppenthal
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 1479197009
Published: 2012-05-17T06:00:00+00:00

Second, chickens need to eat some small rocks to break up hard grains. The small rocks you need are sold as “grit”, which is non-soluble rock of just the right size, usually crumbled granite. This will not dissolve in the chickens’ digestive system, providing them with the roughness they need to properly digest hard grains and seeds. Again, you could put some grit in a small feeder, mix it into the main food supply, or else just scatter a pile of it on the ground. Chickens will take what they need, which is somewhere around a ratio of 1/40 (grit/grains). If chickens are only eating commercial feed and no hard grains (such as scratch grains), then theoretically they do not need grit.

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