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other threads. You had to have been there. Ultimately, unimportant to any but the participants. and not particularly important to them.

that's "wierd". and quite unusual in US zoning, where maximum density is often associated with minimum lot sizes - but w/i a subdivion (partucularly more modern subdivisions) many of those rules are more "flexible".

Odd, I thought you got good advice about chicken tractors, and you set forth very good reasons why a tractor is best suited to your needs, in spite of the massive acreage you have available and the very small flock you wanted to keep. an 8x8 or perhaps 8x12 hoop coop style chicken tractor with...

Right now the plans are (loosely): How do you contain your birds (this poll) What is your flock composition (gender, age) What is your range (pasture, wooded, "garden", feed crop) and how diverse is it (substantially all grasses, all grains, all "fruits and veggies" (i.e. garden), trees...

French Mulberry/American Beautyberry - not yet in season. But we are detouring... (one of the things I normally love about BYC - and am frequently guilty of instigating). But maybe not here.

I'm struggling with those answers still, will put up the (easier to imagine answers for) flock composition (age/gender) poll first. and I admit, I didn't think my woods would provide the benefit to my birds that they do. On a nutrition/sq ft basis, its much, much less efficient thann my...

Ash leaves are around 15% protein on a dry matter basis. Their actual protein content is lower, after accounting for the water content. But yes, birds will eat them. This isn't that poll though.

No. The questions here were partly to help me write questions for 5he next poll. No series of questions will perfectly cover every situation. Just trying to establish some broad trends.

I never said otherwise.

...and to the extent you want to qualify the value of time out of run - that's not the point of this poll. This poll was to determine (broadly), how much time was being spent out of the run , and how much space might be available to the birds during that time. Future polls will try to dial in...

The other answers foreclose it being greater than 4 hours, and it could be as few as a handful of minutes daily. Expressio unius est exclusio alterius. There are 24 hours in a day. Less than four divided by 24 is less than 1/6th - not for long. These are relative terms, and some admittedly...

I assume it is something close to "Votes in Category" / "Total Voters" = % , then some rounding function is applied. So 51/156 = 33.33333[repeating], which is then displayed as 33.3 (first answer) But if you add all the categories up, because there are more votes than voters, you end up with...

I can't A B C - the poll can't be edited. 51 votes is "not at all" the next two, "I sometimes let them out weekly for a few hours, [space choice]", 33 votes, is "not often" the next two, "a few hours daily, [space choice]", 21 votes, is "not for long" 105 is more than half of 156. A...

Shadrach, may I remind you, back on one of the first pages, you pointed out that the percentages didn't add, and I responded both that I didn't write thee program that generates the percentages (its part of the built in poll on this website), AND that it divides the number of answers in any...

I'm reading the poll exactly as I said I did. The majority of flocks are not let out very long, very often, or at all. and at the time I posted it, we had 50 votes for "not at all", 19+12 (31 for the math impaired) for "not very often", and a further 10 + 11 (21) for "not very long". 50 + 31...

I sliced it as I did because so many people seem to think that free ranging can make a substantial dent in the feed bill, or magically fix a host of deficiencies in the bird's regular feed, but the majority of people don't let their birds free range very long, very often, or at all. That's sort...

Oh, I don't know about that. While there is a small sample size, we can say that the majority of flocks are managed in a way that involves four hours or fewer of free range time daily, and that the overwhelming majority of those flocks only occasionally range, or not at all. We can also say...

Yes, I intend to eventually create multiple polls to try and capture a "feel" for what is typical.

Yes. One of the next two polls will focus on quality of forage. And tractoring is a "part of" method, as is everything but truly feral ranging. I don't want to sidetrack, but tractoring has the disadvantage that the birds can only snack on what's w/i the area of the tractor. Which often...

Basically, its to help me write the next poll. ;)