Chicken Grit 1kg

An absolute necessity if you are keeping chickens as they need grit in order to grind and digest their food.

Hens don't have teeth (hence the phrase, rare as hen's teeth), so they ingest grit into their gizzards, where it helps break up their food.

If your chickens don't have access to natural grit in the ground, you should provide some. Grit mixed with oster shell has the added benefit of providing a source of soluble calcium, which is essential for strong egg shells.

Our special formula has the added benefit of containing oystershell - which gives laying hens that extra calcium for egg shell production.

Recommended Dose:

Sprinkle some grit on top of their feed each day, similar to the way you would salt the food you eat.

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£8.95 Inc. VAT

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How a Chicken Eats

Since they have no teeth, chickens eat and digest food in a three-stage process, each of which can have its associated problems.

When a chicken eats, the food it swallows is first stored in its crop, a pouch at the bottom of its neck. Here the food is stored and softened by water, which is one of the primary reasons your chicken must have access to fresh water when feeding.

Once the food is softened it is moved by muscles along the oesophagus to the chicken’s stomach. The first part of the stomach mixes the food with stomach acid and pepsin (a digestive enzyme) which helps break down the food.

The food then passes into the gizzard, a muscular organ with rough ridges all over the inside, which breaks down the food further using ingested grit. (So, again, that’s why your chickens must have access to clean grit.)