Flock Talk

Depending on, you know, I sent you a picture.

You got some pictures you're going to share with folks.

I'm trying to pull them up right now.

You know, it goes in just about the size of maybe a pinto bean.

And it'll come out, you know, smaller than a pea.

Does turkeys do the same thing?

Oh, every bird.

All right, so here's the thing, right? Turkey.

Turkey

grits huge.

It is.

But the opening going into the gizzard is bigger than the opening coming out in the proventriculus of the

intestinal

tract.

So it'll go in, you know, like you're amazed at some of the things your birds will eat, right, because of the size of it.

And once it gets down to a certain, you know, diameter, once it gets down to a certain size, it gets pushed out by the activity of the gizzard and starts to work its way down through the rest of the digestive tract.

So completely normal.

But in most cases, it'll lose at least 50 to 60% of its size in the gizzard and that's why we choose granite because it'll stay in there longer being one of the harder or hardest stones you know stone material out there it it will last longer than limestone and sandstone and other types of rocks so just has the better staying power

so got uh some pictures you sent these are your pictures right this is turkey Okay, this is turkey?

This is turkey.

So, you know, I took the pictures of the grit and you can see, like Kerry was talking about, you know, that's three quarters of an inch, or it's half inch turkey grit, half inch long, three eighths of an inch wide.

And it'll come out about the size of a pea, you know, when it's all said and done.

And that's the inside of the gizzard with contents.

So, for the folks that ever do a necropsy or process their own birds, it's really good to look inside the gizzard.

A good gizzard will be almost 50% rocks.