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My understanding is that it is the variety in the girls' diet that creates healthy birds and good eggs.
Our birds free range about half time, and during the time they spend in their run, they get our (healthy) table scraps, including meat and fish. They also get handfuls of BOSS and/or scratch tossed high and wide, just for something to amuse them and scratch for. They have pellets available free choice at all times.
They haven't started laying yet, but everyone remarks on how clean, shiny and healthy they look (and we think they're beautiful, too!) so the food variety must be doing some good!
Our birds free range about half time, and during the time they spend in their run, they get our (healthy) table scraps, including meat and fish. They also get handfuls of BOSS and/or scratch tossed high and wide, just for something to amuse them and scratch for. They have pellets available free choice at all times.
They haven't started laying yet, but everyone remarks on how clean, shiny and healthy they look (and we think they're beautiful, too!) so the food variety must be doing some good!