GM from south Mississippi, to answer your question I went to the source, I opened my garden gate and the first place the chickens went to was the green's, we have a mix of mustard, collard's and turnip green's, they did not show a preference but ate them all, I mean ALL, down to the nub, then...
Hmmmm, there's mucho calcium in the green's they eat daily I thought, it's one of the first area's they run to when left out of the coop, pick'n @ the grassy green stuff, plus the buggy stuff I throw to them from the garden, mator's, cukes, they do not eat green peppers or okra tho, butternut...
Forage time depends, usually it's atleast 8 hours, unless I go out to town, livestock auction, yada blah, then I keep them up till I get home, hawks buzz by at times, if I'm outside at the garden working about they tend to shy off, shhhhh, do not let them know they are protected here, it's safer...
No oyster shells provided, and the chicken scratch is a mix made up by the feed store, let's see, it has crushed corn, millet seeds, wheat seeds, sunflower seed's, pellet's with a light touch of molasses applied, been feeding them the same scratch for about 3 years, oh, recently a coon reached...
Mississippi coast area, so we are in the heat, after about 10 years here this is the first I have seen blotchy ego's, none of the green shells show any discoloration, this was a batch of about 13 egg's collected, we have multiple chickens laying, no particular breed, just what ever mix the hen...
Learning to navigate, not the brightest crayon in the box but I am able to learn, time is a factor, got to get, sun is shining, got to make the hay....
I dunno what mine are other then chicken chicken's, some are mixed colors some are solid, some are questionable as to whether they be chickens or not, maybe a few buzzards hiding amongst them since we have so many here, they do keep the roadways clean, and it seems from observation that they are...
Hey, I like that, rust never sleeps, found when I did NDT that rust grow's 7 times, so if you skimming off 1/8" then the rust will grow to about 7/8" so I am told by a metallurgist.....
Ahhh, TY, it is a welcome happily received, but guineas, man ohhh man, those things started roosting on my roof, could not get them to return to their pen, and annoying up there, they were, a large owl must have spotted them, they dwindled one by one, nevvah got anymore which was fine by me...