For me it’s not just the cost of the 100 pounds ofcorn and sunflower hearts as there is also the leaf lettuce, peanuts, cheese and blueberries. I consider all leftover cat food and kitchen scraps as free. They love their hand fed bedtime snacks.
One roster four hens and a male peacock and all...
I do mine once a year in the spring. I do keep spreading hay on the floor throughout the year, deeper in the winter. They like digging through the hay in the morning before I let them out in the run. The caged in run is on decking boards with gaps, so in the summer it gets hosed down as needed...