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I don't know about studies as such but apparently the Chinese know something about this topic as do many who live in what used to be the Persian Empire.

On my uncles farm where I worked when I was young there were 4 or 5 tribes of free rangers as well as Battery chickens. The free rangers didn't get commercial feed. I was told that it took my Uncle about eight years of breeding within the free range tribes to produce chickens that could survive...

Nor me and I've got a degree in it.:lol:

One might have thought this would be the case but what I found with free rangers was they tended not to stay close to the coop and the ground around the coops remained relatively untouched.:confused:

A couple of the studies I've read suggest that Jungle Fowl claim about an acre (43569 square feet) of territory per tribe. Of course, there is a world of difference between Jungle Fowl and high production breeds. The tribes I cared for in Catalonia took about an acre of territory per tribe but...