That is a nice big run, but it looks like dirt and leaves to me. My run is lush and green, and therefore a great habitat for worms and bugs, and I still worry that my chickens wouldn't find enough to eat to just free range all day. I think your little ones are being food deprived.
This is not very important, but thought I'd share it. All the chicks that were born this year are actually pullets, not hens. The males are cockerels, not roosters. They become hens and roosters at one year old. On the feed, my chickens, generally 12 of them, are in a 4,000 SF area to...