My family and I are working towards getting meat birds for our backyard farm, and once we raise up 8 eight birds we would like to keep two as a breeding pair for next year. My question however, is if it would be wiser to eat all the birds instead of keeping two, as I worry about the rooster overbreeding the single hen. I know that this is a considerable danger, but it has never been something we have experienced because even our roughest roosters (in our egg laying flock) have always had a considerable amount of hens to breed with. I just want some advice, because we wouldn't have the space to get more than 8 birds (we are currently only able to build a 8x3 chicken tractor), but I would still like to contribute to the breeding of nearly extinct heritage breeds. We have also yet to acquire any birds, so we don't know their temperaments yet.