Chick N Shak

I would first off like to thank Monica for posting up her coop design!!!
I based my coop off of her idea but as my Husband Dave tells everyone he gave it steroids. As you will see we did change it up. The main idea I loved so much on Monica's was the covered attached run. For us the covered run will work great where we live in the SF Bay Area. It is like an "All Season Porch" for our hens. I also LOVE how "clean" the whole coop looks.

• setting the whole coop/run into the ground​
• raising roof/door height for easy access into the run​
• House is MUCH larger, I want at least seven hens I have five now​
• Nesting boxes are inside house​
• Windows on house​

This coop is beefy!! I really have to hand it to Dave (husband) he grew up a city boy and had no idea where to begin on this until I gave him some pictures I printed up here and elsewhere on the internet. Also, he listened to me about what I had and liked on my chicken coops growing up.
This coop believe it or not is being built on a "beer budget" and is made from scrounging leftovers from our friend's construcion yard. It does help that our friend owns a construction company AND that Dave worked for years framing multi-million dollar custom homes here in CA.
So far with all of our building materials I think we might have bought about $200.00 worth of stuff we were not able to get from the construction yard.
In the picutes one of the framed wall photos, the coop does not look level. It really is I was just exhausted by then!
Tonight, Aug. 23rd we just put in the nesting box drawer. I have to get some photos of it in the daytime. We had a slow down here on our build due to a mini heat wave. Upper 90's yeah, yeah, not that hot for some of you but for us it was toasty. Sorry, we are spoiled with our ocean fog every morning but it did not reach us the last few days so we warmed up!
OK, got the "Nesting Drawer" photos today. We made a drawer because of our two little ones who are always interested in what the chickens are doing. A drawer would be easier for them to deal with while checking out the nesting boxes. They would not have to remember to latch it open so NO head bumps!!!! SCROLL down to see the new photos of it installed into the hen house!!!
They moved into their new house last night August 26th!!!
We still have some things to do, like adding the wire run, finishing up the roofing on it, there are some latches missing, I have to clean up my painting mistakes and also spray the underside of the run roof. BUT, other then that it is looking pretty good!!
You will see on the photos that the roof line blocks off part of the windows. We did that on purpose.
First off we wanted to block the wind and the winter the rain will blow against the one window/clean out wall. The other reason was because we built the house under a HUGE Sweet Almond tree. We have a LARGE population of raccoons , opossums, and roof rats in our area so with the lower roof line these critters will never be able to get to the windows on the house to bother our hens. That is the reason why we raised the house off the ground as well. So added below are my newest photos of my coop.