My girls love chopped-up leaves (chopped by the lawn mower) in their run for days when it's too rainy to get out in the yard.
One thought: don't use leaves that have been raked up from the street gutters along your road! They are generally contaminated with petrochemicals from vehicle traffic, and they really shouldn't be added to either your chicken runs or your compost heap. Instead, use leaves raked from yards that haven't been exposed to herbicides and other pesticides.
I often mooch them from my neighbors, who have bagged them up and put them by the curb for city pickup. I can return their leaf bags in five minutes, which seems to make them absurdly pleased!