Chickens are sometimes fed in a pan of meal or mush, but also a corn or seed mix thrown on the ground to let the chickens do their natural thing and "scratch" the ground to uncover seeds and insects.
Provided your plants are large enough to escape damage, chickens can do a job of weeding a planting with this behavior.

Billy

-----Original Message-----
From: Kitsune Miko
To:
Sent: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:10:08 -0800
Subject: [IBC] Chicken Grit


In California there are a lot of versons of crushed
granite available, so it was not forsale at the feed
store, only this corn stuff, perhaps it was "Scrath."

Kits
--- Mark Hill - Alternative Connection
wrote:
LOL
Are we discussing "Grits" ?
My wife loves grits for breakfast in the morning.
From what I understand, it's ground up corn.
Not sure I'd like to put it on my trees.

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: Internet Bonsai Club
] On Behalf Of
Billy M. Rhodes
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:19 AM
To:
Subject: [IBC] Chicken Grit

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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