100% free range

[MissChick@dee]

Maybe where you live in winter everything dies back, but that is not the case in all geographic locations

True that! I wanna move!

 

[kaywould]

You don’t buy feed for any of your birds? I am a bit perplexed.
Do you grow grains in the summer? Corn, wheat?
I’m really quite interested.
I could see where you could feed eggs back to them for protein and such but in winter everything dies back and even eggs slowly decline.
The thought of butchering one to feed another kinda grosses me out a bit. But I’m sure there’s many that do.

Currently the chickens and turkeys are all on layer pellets. The first 3 months the turkeys got wild game bird feed but now everyone is mixed together and they all get later pellets.

The ducks are the only ones completely 100% free range. Have been about 90% free range for about 5 months but last month have been 100% free range and they are doing great.

Likely, for the birds and turkeys, I won’t go 100% free range + scraps, but will buy a lot less feed and make them forage more and more but always give some feed available at times.