Cracked Corn is never "grit." Birds have no teeth so their food is prepared for digestion in with bits of stone or "grit" to grind the food. To survive birds (chickens) must contantly ingest this grinding material along with their food. In some areas it is crushed oyster shell and in others it is granite. I have even seen Turface sold as grit, but I wouldn't use it with my chickens as I don't think it would be hard enough. BTW, a link between bids and dinosaurs is this need for grinding and a artifact frequentny found with dinosaur bones is a small pile of stones.
Cracked corn is food.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kitsune Miko
To:
Sent: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:47:22 -0800
Subject: [IBC] Chicken Grit


--- wrote:
In a message dated 3/31/05 12:04:27 AM,
writes:
'round these parts we all use busted up oyster
shells.
Oh well...
John
in Houston

Apparently crushed granite is only used for chicken
grit north of the
Mason-Dixon Line. If you will be at the World Bonsai
Convention, my offer still
stands.
Iris


....but not west of the Sierras where it is cracked
corn.

Kits

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