Hnmmm, glad I am not feeding Purina Layena®...
Right now they are working the unplanted part of the garden for all the bugs, weeds, etc that they can find and just a little bit of feed. LOL, but once the tomatoes, strawberries, etc. are fruiting, that will stop, and I will have to move them to their pasture after it comes back from their heavy feeding on it over the winter. They dearly love scratching in the garden and field.
Right now they are working the unplanted part of the garden for all the bugs, weeds, etc that they can find and just a little bit of feed. <<<
That is the way God planned it.
It is also where the deep colored yolks full of vitamins come from.
I love the song they sing and how busy they are.
Never clocked a chicken, we did the ducks, the year of the cricket invasion.
A duck eats a cricket every 20 seconds, until the craw is bulging, then they take a nap for their digestion process and start over.