You could still have the pop door and run on the south side....and the door would still be opening against a wall, the north wall instead of the east wall.I'll try to answer all questions:
@123RedBeard The walls will go up to the rafters. I'll need to put OSB on the underside of the trusses so they don't roost up there. I'll probably actually need to get another two sheets of OSB to accommodate for that, and at that point I'll need to put OSB all the way up, just because. Good catch. As for ventilation, I was going to cut a vent on the bottom of the exterior wall in front of the nesting boxes. Not exactly sure what the eaves look like, but we'll cut some vents up top there, too. It's hard to plan for that when we did the inspection and the shed was locked, or I would have taken some pictures. I didn't look that close when we looked at the house before the offer because I didn't plan to use the shed for a coop at that time. I wonder if we should throw a window in to let some light into the coop area. The storm door would let some light in as there's an existing window, but it won't be much. The area you shaded in with yellow is the coop section. The nesting boxes would be in the open, but on the rear of them will be a hopper door so we can just drop it from the shed side to grab the eggs. Where you wrote "Nests" is the hopper door from elevation view. It's just going to be trimmed out with hinges on the bottom is all I was showing. There is no pop door on the elevation view, just to the exterior. I don't want them getting in my shed, which is the whole reason I'm putting up a wall in the first place.
@Blooie Even if I can quick sketch it up it doesn't mean I'm above forgetting something obvious haha!
@aart I have to have the set up this way. The shed is existing, so I'm just retrofitting the coop into it. The existing door to the shed is on the west side, so I designed the coop/run to be on the south side to provide for a little bit of sunshine, especially since there's a big tree right there and it will all be shaded most of the year. I figured it would also help with ice and such. The east side of the shed is facing the neighbor's yard and I don't think there's enough space for the run, though I guess we could still put the pop door on the south side. The bummer about that would be that I wouldn't have the door swinging into a wall, so it could be somewhat difficult to maneuver around the door to get things out if I pull around 3 feet out of the east side for coop space. The shed (by the listing info) is 10x12. I don't have exact height as, again, I didn't get a chance to FV anything. I haven't had a chance to mull over ceiling as I didn't think about it before. I know there are roof vents, though, and on the south side, so that might work to just use the existing roof vents for ventilation if I leave it as a mesh ceiling. I think that this picture is the best I can do for a picture of a shed, unfortunately.
We are not. We close on the new house October 2nd. Maybe. We've had a bit of a large speedbump with the funding of the folks buying our current house, so we have yet to see how that all plays out. Seriously. A week before closing. SMDH.
We have five ladies, with a city ordinance only ever allowing 6. We have have no desire to go through the permitting process to allow us to have more. Frankly, we have more than enough eggs lol.
