Thanks ladies. Mine get lots of bugs with their new 'Chunnel' that goes around my garden area. They catch the grasshoppers that flee from me when I am working in the garden and I give them any tomato worms I find too. Was giving them live mealworms but they have all turned to bottles, so I'm waiting on baby worms now. I also take them all the crickets I catch in the house! I get so many of them during monsoon season. Does it hurt them to stay on grower instead of all flock? I don't want overweight chickens, lol.X 2...higher protein is great for birds' adult plumage too. If you don't think they are getting alot of bugs whilst free ranging I would supplement with dried meal worms....birds are omnivores not vegetarians. Unfortunately, most feeds today do not contain anymore animal protein.
the kittens ended up in joint custody with one of their farm cats. I have no idea what kind it was, what ever was popular in Kansas I guess. Otherwise all the chickens and Roos eventually went into the pot before they got to old. She had to have been a very fierce hen. When she had ducklings and goslings she would go wild when they took to water and swam away. She just couldn't figure it out, her chicks will drawn...... But they didn't.
