they are like Gordon Ramsey when it is about their food, raisin, no, we won’t eat that! pineapple, get that away from us 
I do this too. They won't eat the fines that settle to the bottom of their bowls... but wet it down, and it's game on!
Put the pellets in a zip lock bag and hammer/ crush them. That's how I get mine to eat them. Feed is too expensive to waste.Mine HATE pellets, it doesn’t matter how I serve them, tried the flying through the air trick, they do run and peck at them, but spit them out as fast as they peck at them, mixed it in with cottage cheese ( they love cottage cheese) they refused to eat the spiked cottage cheese, I gave them nothing but pellets, they refused to eat for 3 whole days and on day 3, started to eat each others feathersso, back to what they usually get..
Same here. They're used to me raining garden scraps on them, when they're available (I aim for the top of the netting and shake it to make it fall) so they stand there with their mouths open when they see something flying through the air. I feel bad when I kick a pebble or toss aside a stick because half the flock immediately runs to see what it is.
I mean who has that much time on their hands so maybe it's because I don't do that very often. It's super cute though. I think the boys like this most of all. They'll stand so patiently waiting their turn for a single little tiny pellet. It takes me longer to get it fixed between my fingers than it does for it to disappear in their beaks. The girls don't really fall for it quite like the boys, but occasionally, if they're hungry, the girls enjoy it. They lose patience much faster than the boys but maybe because I have more girls 
Mine hate pellets, too. I mix them with scratch to get any down them. I have tried taking away the scratch for them to get hungry. They apparently would rather die than live on pellets. But In over a decade, I get eggs and the chickens are healthy. Go figure. That said I do use a multigrain, high-quality scratch.
