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:lau We're into chicken calculus, I think. Current numbers are 18 females of 4 months to 2 years old, 1 rooster, 13 chicks (7 for sale), and 5 cull cockerels (for sale until I have room for them in the freezer). In my climate, soil, and bedding I find that things dry out rather than mold if...

Indeed. We always appreciate people who are willing to be helpful.

Welcome to BYC. That post was nearly a decade ago. :) I'm much more relaxed about it and willing to trust that when I toss a pile of fruit or veggie trimmings into the run the birds will eat an appropriate amount and the rest will become one with the litter. :)

Thank you. So I should be thinking coffee cup per bird rather than coffee can. I didn't want to go overboard through ignorance since this stuff is all going to be free.

Can't someone give me a basic level of information on this? Can one hen eat a tomato? Two tomatoes? Can one hen eat two pickling cucumbers? Two ears of wormy sweet corn? How many hens does it take to eat a cantaloupe? A watermelon? Isn't there some general figure someone can name between...

But how much is that per chicken in actual produce? I have no idea what percentage of four hens' daily intake one, bruised cantaloupe would provide.

My new job is attending a farm stand. Waste produce I take home is waste produce that the farm doesn't have to send a truck to pick up so I can have all the overripe melons, overripe tomatoes, wormy ears of corn, 3-day-old strawberries, limp green beans, etc. that I want to collect on my...