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I give mine clippings each day, because I hand pull them or cut with yard scissors. It helps to keep the feed bill down, and provides them with valuable nutrients (live green food!).
I have noticed that they tend to gorge themselves on it, because of the competition of all 30 of them...
I don't know about the experts' knowledge on this, but I have seen that when my chickens receive too many green treats (too many 2 inch grass clippings to eat- they love grass as food), the next day the eggshells aren't as strong.
Greens are supposed to only be maybe 10% of the diet, I have...