Free ranging in winter

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Peckadoodle

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Near Austin...still sunny, but the wind has picked up.
 
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It's been about 30 each morning for past several days and mid 50 to mid 60 days. This AM it was 65 and now a front will slide thru and bring lower temps by nightfall. I still have some cool weather grasses and weeds growing but, spotty. Of course, the manure piles are still fresh & available, that's one thing that grows all year. LOL

It is a recycling thing -- manure piles -- as some feed going thru comes out as "unused" and the chickens then use it.
 
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Seems the chickens are happiest running on my wood chips garden. They turned their noses up at the laying pellets and went right to the garden this morning
 
treerooted

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Well, I'm with @NH Homesteader . I feed very little in the summer, but it's a must in the winter. If there's good foraging the birds leave the feed alone anyway, so I just make adjustments based on the flock needs as they change through the seasons.

500 will be a good size flock!
 
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