Folly's place pointed out that excercise was an important factor regarding nutrition. It's a very interesting point. For a chicken, foraging is excercise. It's inextriably linked to finding food.
Confined chickens don't forage once they've stripped their run. They know there is nothing there to forage. They get bored. Same old shite day in day out. They don't excercise and they have feed constantly available in many cases.
I must add that I can't help seeing some great irony in humans dismissing the chickens ability to regulate it's diet.
Confined chickens don't forage once they've stripped their run. They know there is nothing there to forage. They get bored. Same old shite day in day out. They don't excercise and they have feed constantly available in many cases.
I must add that I can't help seeing some great irony in humans dismissing the chickens ability to regulate it's diet.