My chicken prefer being fed from the ground

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As I considered birds as a source of some easy investment, I started with chicks, several of them. In fear of disease outbreak, I decided to have good feeders an drinkers spread all over my homestead. At first, the free-range birds were used to feeding from the feeders and drinking from the drinkers. With time however, I discovered they preferred food on the ground. The also drink stagnant water in puddles over the clean water in the drinkers. This is a challenge to me, but since they are not usually confined, I have very little control over what they do. They seem to prefer more being fed from the ground.