Joel Salatin has an interesting method with a portable chicken coop. We don't have the space. We are just inside city limits, so we can't have a rooster either :( In addition to our thirteen laying hens, we also raise chickens for meat. Since there is only wooded area behind us, nobody knows, and it takes very little space to raise all the chickens we need for ourselves. We raise three batches of twenty five per year, and we will be starting another batch within the next couple weeks. Maybe I will do a post about it?