Couldn't find organic chick starter in our area. So, we put organic chicken crumble (16% protein) into our grain grinder to get the right texture. We give them two (these days more like three or four) crumbled boiled eggs a day, plus grasshoppers that we find in water barrels.
I've been sieving sharp sand and sprinkling the fines from that around their cardboard box home. They're 16 days old right now. We hope to move them to their chicken coop next week and start putting them in pasture cages during the day...we'll see how warm the weather gets.
If we find a fresh mouse/mole kill courtesy of our cats (and most mornings we do), we cleaver it into two or three pieces and toss that into their box. They pick the soft parts out.
I tried giving them some saurkraut today. It was in the kitchen sink strainer and had been kind of rinsed, thought I'd see if they eat it, chopped a bit with their greens. Seems to be a hit!
We used to feed the chickens whey when I stayed at a place with goats and ongoing cheese making.
