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As I stare at that sketch, another aspect of chicken math kicks in and yet another variation comes to mind. A person could bump that up to a 5' x 8 house and likely still get two sides from two sheets of plywood, with less scrap and drop left on the ground from those two sheets. That would make the back part under the monitor 5' square, the scratch shed 3' x 5' and with the extra SF, the capacity goes from a max of 6 birds to 10, or very comfortable for 4. But that also results in a whole bunch of scrap elsewhere as you try to use 4' x 8' sheets to cover 5' x 5' openings. Places like the floor and roof. This might only be an option if a person had large cache of 6' lengths of boards or scrap and drops from another project they wanted to use.
The other aspect of chicken math I refer to is how fast the capacity of a house will increase by the addition of a foot or so of width. The difference between a 4' x 6.5' house and a 6' x 10' house may not seem like much on paper, but it is nearly 3X larger when you consider interior volume, so you go from maybe 4 birds to 12 by bumping things up that little bit. Something to consider.
The other aspect of chicken math I refer to is how fast the capacity of a house will increase by the addition of a foot or so of width. The difference between a 4' x 6.5' house and a 6' x 10' house may not seem like much on paper, but it is nearly 3X larger when you consider interior volume, so you go from maybe 4 birds to 12 by bumping things up that little bit. Something to consider.