Just for clarification does that mean that as the digestive system of the chicken adjusts to the healthier feed (FF) and becomes more healthy in turn that they will eat less of the healthy feed? Sorry if that question reads strange, it's the best I could do to word it without sounding argumentative.
RichnSteph
Yes. Think about when you eat yogurt regularly- it takes some time for the good bugs to balance the gut. And, because FF is a superfood, making the vitamins, minerals, the new amino acids it creates {and new vitamins, too} more bioavailable, it take a bit for the system to catch up. Plus, FF is super dense nutritionionally- think about the difference bewteen a non-sugared power bar compared to, say, a piece of bread.
Like on people going on a healthy diet, it takes a bit of time for deficiencies to get corrected and stabilized.
There's also this misnomer that chickens have a palate that's similar to humans. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Humans have, on average, around 10,000 taste buds in our mouths.
Chickens have a whopping 20-30. They can taste actually *very* little. By nature, they are not picky. Mine will eat anything they can catch {and you won't see me eating mice, etc!}, although they do have a preference for FF over everything else.
