Reply #8: NOBODY eats the damned mustard.

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Or the perennial pepper weed.

There are plenty of coyotes around, but I have wire fence all the way around, and they don't make it onto the property.

There are plenty of weeds, bugs, and weed seeds to keep them full and growing. I used to buy some chick-starter, but gave that up when I realized that, free-ranging with mom, she's teaching them where to get food and water, and they eat the lay pellets without a problem, too.