Rural/Farm Life

6 or so for a family. and yeah, you dont NEED roosters. especially if your birds are penned up.

but in 5 years i have yet to lose a bird to a predator, and hope to keep it that way. we have hawks here all the time, likin their chops over my hens.

having dogs pretty much keeps the coyotes away. they have been seen scoping the place out. there are plenty here in the city. but between my dogs, and all the dogs that have to pee at my back gate because of my dogs, i think a coyote would estimate a pack of at least a dozen big dogs. lol.

nice thing about the truck as a coop is that it is pretty raccoon, etc proof, being made of steel and all. and up off the ground, so it is rat proof also.

the other big thing about the roosters is that it allows me to keep a closed flock. no factory farmed chicks needed. and no need to slaughter all the old hens to bring new girls in.
free to add a few good hens every year, and not worry too much about how the old girls lay.