Is 1 rooster enough for 15 hens?

[Ra_]

My roo now has 9 girls but he mainly wanders with a group of five of them.
He mates with the others but probably not as often.
I incubated eggs from all of them.
I got about a 70% hatch rate but I used eggs up to 3 weeks old.

 

[ZachyWachy]

I have 1 rooster and 21 hens. That number is new since 10 of them were added just last year. But I agree. He will hang out with as many hens as will stay with him and will take care of them. Although, I once had a black australorp take care of 15 hens with a very good hatch rate; which probably only worked since the flock stayed in the coop until I got home from school-or half the day when school was out.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I'm sure people will tell you that the number of hens doesn't matter and there is no magic number but I'm going tell you they are wrong. There is a magic number and that number is three.

My roosters are .
They wanted me to thank you for the laughs.

 

[Shadrach]

That's fantastic. I've been trying to get the roosters here to laugh for years.

 

[Viking84]

The town my inlaws live in (Ocilla Georgia) has over 100 wild chickens that roam the city streets and neighborhoods. They are always in their yard and I have noticed that they always travel in small flocks of one rooster with one to three hens. I have never seen a rooster with more than three hens.

 

[Shadrach]

The town my inlaws live in (Ocilla Georgia) has over 100 wild chickens that roam the city streets and neighborhoods. They are always in their yard and I have noticed that they always travel in small flocks of one rooster with one to three hens. I have never seen a rooster with more than three hens.

There are very sound reasons for this which would take me more time than I have atm to elaborate.
This semi feral arrangement is reported all over the world and can be seen with jungle fowl today.