It **IS** hard not to pander, and your little dinosaurs chasing you around the fields triggers an endorphin rush. I understand, and I'm not the most empathic of humans. We've only got about 4.5 acres for our birds, about 1.75 acres of pasture, the rest underbrushed native woods. When the land...
A nutritionally complete, balanced diet is what they need. Free ranging adds a big, unknowable variable which can help to address imbalance (or be the cause of it) depending upon what they are free ranging on. The more diverse the pasture, the better.
That said, the rest of your management...