Leftover seeds all over the run

[Kyng]

Seems my ladies are quite picky and a lot of the feed ends up all over the place. I’m trying to compost their whole run, but I’m not sure those seeds help anything.
Should I sift it out, clear it up?
Any tips for composting appreciated. New to this all.

 

[Debbie292d]

What seeds?

Their feed should be layer pellets or crumbles or all-flock pellets or crumbles, unless you're feeding them Kalmbach's Henhouse Reserve. We had an issue with them picking through that so now they are back to all-flock crumbles and the HHR is a treat, like scratch, just healthier!

 

[Kyng]

What seeds?

Their feed should be layer pellets or crumbles or all-flock pellets or crumbles, unless you're feeding them Kalmbach's Henhouse Reserve. We had an issue with them picking through that so now they are back to all-flock crumbles and the HHR is a treat, like scratch, just healthier!

Their feed is a homemade blend based upon one of the posts I saw here. I cannot get feed where I live, and this is what they’re eating for now.

 

[Altairsky]

I personally use an automatic feeder that does not allow the chickens to throw seeds around and more food comes out only when what's there gets eaten.
If I had no such feeder, I would only give food when they ate everything so they can't be picky.
Seeds are fine as long as you follow the recipe posted on this forum, and you integrate a lot of greens and animal protein twice a week. At least seeds don't go moldy or rot: I had this problem with industrial feed. They threw it everywhere and it went rotten with ugly green molds. It even went moldy inside the automatic feeder. They went as far as stop laying and the few eggs they managed to lay were all cracked. I tried 2 different brands of processed feed, then went back to feeding them natural food.

 

[Kyng]

I personally use an automatic feeder that does not allow the chickens to throw seeds around and more food comes out only when what's there gets eaten.
If I had no such feeder, I would only give food when they ate everything so they can't be picky.
Seeds are fine as long as you follow the recipe posted on this forum, and you integrate a lot of greens and animal protein twice a week. At least seeds don't go moldy or rot: I had this problem with industrial feed. They threw it everywhere and it went rotten with ugly green molds. It even went moldy inside the automatic feeder. They went as far as stop laying and the few eggs they managed to lay were all cracked. I tried 2 different brands of processed feed, then went back to feeding them natural food.

Yes. We give them plenty of greens, meat and table scraps. I will look into an automatic feeder. That’s a good idea. Thank you.