No, forage is grass, weeds, bugs etc. Whatever they can find when not in their run, including sneaking into the garden but they mostly stick to the lawn and leaf litter under the trees.
All my other chickens love their scratch but the broody raised are noticeably different.
While this is probably true for most chickens it is not for my broody raised pullets, they choose forage over scratch mix all the time and they are constantly wasting a majority of the scratch mix.
I really don't have a side with all this diet discussion (I do not believe processed pellets are...