Every scrap from the kitchen goes to the chickens. All garden waste goes to the chickens. If I want to start a new garden area, I
fence it and put in chickens and throw waste from everything in there.
Poop from the other animals goes in there. They eliminate any fly problem because they love larvae of all kinds. Their manure is very hot, so after they take down all the vegetation in an area, it is dug a couple of inches and is fertilized and ready to plant just a few weeks after you move the chickens somewhere else.They eliminate an enormous amount of work if you want to clear an area of vegetation and bugs.They eat their own feathers which are a good source of calcium, and if you don't take the eggs every day, some will break the eggs of others and eat them. Egg shells are a good source of calcium and a favored food. Chicks are good for the first few days. They have the nourishment already inside them, but can be fed egg white, just like they were eating before they were hatched. They will start eating right away, and they will eat any kind of vegetable or fruit, larvae af different bugs are favored by all chickens. They will chase each other to get a piece of bug. If a chicken gets an injury involving blood, the other chickens will cannibalize that chicken, so it needs to be kept separate until healed so it won't be mistaken for food. They love meat of all kinds, fresh or rotten, and a good way to clean up a rotting dead body and get rid of the odor is to let the chickens at it. You don't ever have to buy food for a chicken. They like almost everything, and a diet high in grain is not the best diet for chickens, but is the best diet for agribusiness. They like
coffee grounds, and i call the eggs that come from chickens who eat coffee grounds "wake up eggs'' and i picture in my mind 2 fried eggs
side by side staring at me. I don't know how anyone can actually use chickens to eat the bugs from a garden. They will eat bugs, but not squash bugs, or at least not mine, but they will eat all the squash and the vines too. So they are good to clean up a garden that you want to replant entirely, but you can't choose which plants they will eat.If you let them run free, they will get plenty to eat, but you can't control where they fertilize.They will eliminate any amount of
compost rapidly. if you put in a lot of vegetable matter, the high heat of chicken poop transforms it all very rapidly. A couple of weeks. Everything gets plenty of turning when chickens are involved.