True Grit
Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 19:34
Has anyone used Vetafarms True Grit before ?
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Re: True Grit
Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 20:21
Is that the pink one?
Re: True Grit
Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 20:28
Looks dark pink / red on the computer . Havent seen it up close yet .
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That one isnt the one I was after , I think I need the fine one .Just giving a look at the colour.
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That one isnt the one I was after , I think I need the fine one .Just giving a look at the colour.
Re: True Grit
Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 20:32
Yea that's the one, I have tried it can honestly say I couldn't see any benefit than what I normally use.
Re: True Grit
Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 20:35
What do you normally use ?
Ive been mixing my own but its costing a fortune to buy bits and pieces off the internet . ...crushed cuttlebone + crushed egg shells + charcoal + shell grit , the ingredients are not the cost its the freight .
Thought I would try one of the off the shelf types .
Ive been mixing my own but its costing a fortune to buy bits and pieces off the internet . ...crushed cuttlebone + crushed egg shells + charcoal + shell grit , the ingredients are not the cost its the freight .
Thought I would try one of the off the shelf types .
Re: True Grit
Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 20:43
My mix is the same but I buy bulk Cuttle bone once a year at the bird sale, the 20kg bag of shell grit from local farm centre, the rest I make my self.
I roast a heap of egg shells on the bbq, burn a few logs for charcoal, chuck the lot in a cement mixer with a few medium sized rocks and bag up when finished.
I roast a heap of egg shells on the bbq, burn a few logs for charcoal, chuck the lot in a cement mixer with a few medium sized rocks and bag up when finished.
Re: True Grit
Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 20:49
Hmmmm they do go through the home made one so it is being eaten ...
Might have to buy up at the next bird sale like you do ....thanks .
Might have to buy up at the next bird sale like you do ....thanks .
Re: True Grit
Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 21:48
If you are after grit what is wrong with getting some ordinary sand and washing some of the finer parts away.
Then just bake some egg shells and put them in the aviary as cracked, the birds especially Gouldians love to nibble around the edges.
If your birds are in a cage all the time and not an aviary you may have to give them a few extra items.
My birds love working over a set lump of cement mix.
Then just bake some egg shells and put them in the aviary as cracked, the birds especially Gouldians love to nibble around the edges.
If your birds are in a cage all the time and not an aviary you may have to give them a few extra items.
My birds love working over a set lump of cement mix.
Re: True Grit
Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 23:21
Take a number of buckets, go to an isolated beach, load up boot with buckets of the grittiest sand you can find. Regular annual ritual here.
LML
LML
Re: True Grit
Posted: 30 Nov 2011, 05:13
finchbreeder wrote:Take a number of buckets, go to an isolated beach, load up boot with buckets of the grittiest sand you can find. Regular annual ritual here.
LML
Debs in the same boat as me not to many beaches around here 
and I'm buggered if I'm driving 5 to 6hrs for a bucket of sand and some cuttle bone 