My pullets have become extremely finicky lately. They haven't begun laying so I still have them on starter/grower feed but they have begun turning up their beaks at it and won't eat it no matter how hungry they seem to be. They have a half-acre yard to free range in from sunrise to sunset and...
I grew up on a commercial chicken farm- we raised 72,000 at a time and after 8 weeks or so off to market they went. I must have seen literally millions of chickens through those years but never once did I see a chicken get to scratch outside, eat bugs and worms, or have the pleasure of gathering...