I think it would be great to be able to post polls. In addition to people answering in the thread, there would be the section at the top of the thread, showing how many people voted for each answer. This could be used for polls on coop bedding, square footage per chicken, free ranging, the number of chickens you keep, whether you have a rooster, do you name your chickens or any number of different things. It could be informational or just fun. If you did decide to add this, it would be helpful for the person that started the poll to be able to edit the poll after it's started, to add other voting options they may have forgotten. I've seen this issue come up on other forums as, "Hey, you forgot such and such." I don't know if this is possible or a lot of work or trouble to add. I just though I would suggest it, in case it wouldn't be too difficult.
Yup, I'd like to add polls to the site. There are some challenges we're trying to overcome related to adding them, but I'm glad you brought it up.