- Aug 13, 2012
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I have three chickens that I keep in a coop at night and through mid-morning. They generally do not eat their pellets during their cooped up time, but wait for the door to open before grousing in the yard. The eggs they lay are somewhere between a grocery store chicken (medium) egg and a robin's egg. I've tried leaving them in the coop all day with no choice but to eat the pellets, but it just seems to agitate them, and they begin digging their way out. Any thoughts on getting them to eat the pellets, and whether avoiding pellets leads to smaller eggs?