Exactly. And well put.
Almost everyone mistakenly thinks that 1.5 inches per bird is supposed to mean that all of them eat at the same time. That measurement comes from a feed measure stand point many many years ago. If you take an old 4 inch deep feed trough and measure the amount of feed in 1.5 inches of width...you just happen to get slightly more than an average chicken will eat in a day (a little left over as a buffer) If you measure 1 inch across x 4 inches deep you get what they will eat with nothing left over. They will in fact eat in shifts and it is good for them. Another thing people worry about is the pecking order. Chickens deeply need the pecking order and it is a very integral part of their genetics.
