Letting the hens eat bugs like nature intended seems to be the best way to make an egg. And the proof is in the taste

I can't have chickens here, although our lot is big enough. There is a nature preserve about 300 feet away. My neighbor tried to raise chickens but all he did was feed the coyotes.

I guess they have to eat too.

The coyotes are new around here (Florida) and since they arrived, the rabbit population has diminished greatly too.

I've also seen a bobcat in my yard a few times in many years, and we get visited by raccoons, opossums, snakes (a 6 foot coachwhip lives under my house), grey fox, sandhill cranes, gopher tortoise, and quite a few other wild creatures.

I've seen alligators cross from the preserve to our west to the lagoon to our east, but not in my yard.

Bob