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I see this behaviour at my house too. They fill up on forage then nap/digest under the bushes before filling up again.

Do you need to correlate the hours spent ranging to the length of the day? 3 hours ranging when there are only six hours of daylight is still half the day. When the days are long it might be only a fifth of the day.

Another interesting question is "how big is your secure coop + run?" Because some of those folks who never let their chooks out would have large runs to make up for it. And another thought, so far Australians, maybe kiwis too, have not had to worry about bird flu. Whereas many others have to...

FWIW, some people with backyard flocks have houses on sandy soil which means only certain types of plants grow. You might want to ask about soil + forage.