Don't have experience with frost seeding, but I sow oats on 40 A each year. I used to use about 3.5 bushels per acre, and was stuck on 80 bushel oats. I now use 5.5 bu per acre (at least 175 lbs) and get over 100 bu oats.
Like I said, 10 lbs/A ain't nuthin'.
I can't imagine your chicken yard is very big--why not just "scratch them in" (cover them up) in a more conventional manner where nothing is left to chance and you have done it properly? I'd even roll them for a PERFECT stand.
From what I gather, frost seeding works best on meadow (forage) land, where the surface has been somewhat undisturbed and has developed surface fractures for the seed to work into. I would bet a chicken yard is hard and compacted--seems to me to be a place where frost seeding is only good in theory, not practice. I'd just do it right--till, seed, cover up, and even roll if possible.
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