Quote: What are those little characters called? Emoticons? I am looking for one that is pulling its hair out, but evidently, there isn't one. I think there are SOME people who are sure they can (feed fodder and not need pellets). I'm not one. I do not base my decision on Science or, for that matter, the word of any one on here, though some sound like they know what they are talking about. I don't see my girls living off grass and seed, alone, during the warm part of the year, so I will never rely on fodder, alone. If fodder was enough, they would not be running around catching everything that moves, fighting over it and gulping it down. That includes all sorts of bugs, insects, worms, grubs (they wiped out the entire June bug population that lived in front of my shop, where a dusk-to-dawn light attracts them, although there wasn't much grass left in the ground by the time they hunted them all out), anything that flies (except bees and wasps), frogs, lizards, baby toads and small rodents. No way does fodder have all THOSE goodies. Of course, they eat MUCH less pellets/commercial feed during the warm months, but they DO still go for it, in the coop, a few times a day.