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I have absolutely no idea how this ten square feet per chicken in a run came about. I do know it wasn't from asking chickens. It seems to me that if one wanted to know how much room a chicken would use given the choice then one would put some chickens on a large area of land and see what they...

What chickens like. Still not enough cover spots within easy reach. That's an acre field. They use most of it. What they don't like. That's a 6m x 6m run. This is what a quarter acre, minus house and outbuildings backyard will probably look like with half a dozen chickens ranging on it all...

It reads like a prison yard. If you were in the UK I would suggest you looked into homing some Ex Battery hens but then again some of the large commercial concerns provide a lot more than a quarter of an acre of ranging ground so it may not be improving their lives that much.

I can't seem to find any information on how you intend to keep these hypothetical chickens. How you intend to keep them is arguably the most important factor in making a breed choice.