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It's not like that all year. We don't get rain in the summer here, so by June it's starting to die, and by August it looks like this. The only reason anything is left green, is that I wash out the waterers in the same couple of spots to create a little moisture and some dust bathing areas...

Free range is fantastic if you can manage it, but it is not always realistic. I elected for a large, covered yard over free-ranging. I have a very heavy predator load -- weasels, bobcats, fox, coyote, lots hawks, you name it. The areas which would be most attractive to the chickens, my...

The way I look at it is this. If you are feeding a quality commercial feed, they are fine getting a few extra things -- vegetables, fruit, seeds, mealworms, whatever. -- as long as the amounts given are fairly minimal (i.e. less than 10%). You don't have to worry too much about unbalancing...