A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities validates a four-tier compliance taxonomy for backyard hen-keeping against 412 shire-enrolled properties, finding substantial inter-rater reliability and an ablation in which the taxonomy's most punitively treated criterion, rooster presence, contributes least to its discriminative power. The same taxonomy determines eligibility for a shire's bundled Backyard Sustainability Rebate, and properties reclassified into its top two tiers lose the rebate's water-tank, compost, and solar components alongside the hens.
| Authors | Petra Umbile, Verity Marris, Marek Solheim |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.xr31ca |
| Pages | 6 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_xr31ca,
author = {Petra Umbile and Verity Marris and Marek Solheim},
title = {How Many Kinds of Backyard Hen-Keeping Does a Shire Recognise?},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.xr31ca},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-backyard-hens-a-xr31ca/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}