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I generally don't. I've done a bit in Revit, but I wouldn't call myself proficient, though I have successfully done a couple of smaller projects in it. At this point I'd pretty much need to do a rendering to get the point across to my husband. Cars are his thing, not building

Bummer at losing the shelves, but this would work. I'm sure I could search, but what height would you put the roost at? And how wide for poop boards?

I feared that might be the best option. Well, that's ok. We'll have to just deal with fewer storage shelves. It is what it is. That does work nicely for the feeder/waterer though. Let me do a quick sketch modification now that my project is out for bid ;)

We're in South Dakota. It'd be stored in the garage during the winter, and the shed in the summer. It's only a double garage, so not a ton of storage space (which I realize in some parts of the country that sounds ridiculous). Do you suppose I could reduce nesting boxes from three to two...

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. We will be bringing our current roost with us, which is basically a ladder with 4 rungs that are...

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. I mean, I suppose we could go to 48". It wouldn't...

@aart Here's again a really quick modification:

@aart I'm a draftsman as well, though you probably can't tell from my quick 10 minute sketch while waiting for final finish selections from the owners on my casework shops (hence my inches vs. feet and inches in dimensions) I was working on haha. I've got a quick second so I'll stretch that...

Yes, exactly

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...

Ah, I should have put an elevation marker. I'm actually looking at the shelves from the outside of the coop. So the entire nesting box area actually bumps in to the coop area up to the rafters. The shelving would be on the shed side, so we could store chicken related things, such as food...

I posted a few weeks ago regarding possible options to house our chickens at our new abode. We determined that it would be best to section off part of the existing shed and modify it to house our lovely ladies. These are the primitive plans I've come up with. I just sketched up something...

No, unfortunately the place I'd want the coop isn't by the door. I think I'll just do the hole in the wall and make the one side up for the ladies, then have the rest for storage. As a coworker of mine pointed out, I could always sell it as a kennel/run later if we sell the house. As for us...

The more I think about it, the more I feel like my husband might be right and we should just incorporate part of the shed. Concrete floor, existing structure. We would just have to cut a pop door in and section off the area we planned to use for the ladies. Just might be the easiest and...

http://www.lowes.com/pd_562137-63001-182464_1z0wg8a__?productId=50152496&Ns=p_product_price|0&pl=1#img Wood Shed. Pretty basic, but I'm thinking it would be pretty easy to add/modify the components to give good ventilation, as well as add the different pieces such as roosting bar(s), boxes...

Sioux Falls is where we live :) Nice to meet others from SoDak! I'll have to look again to see if there's a shed that is the right size. The wood ones seem quite a good bit larger than the plastic (don't want it too big so the heat stays in) and about 5x as expensive. I've already lined up...

http://www.menards.com/main/building-materials/yard-buildings-outdoor-storage-accessories/resin-vinyl-yard-buildings/keter-reg-manor-4-x-6-storage-building/p-2314691-c-9485.htm?tid=-5375467613267865991 Thoughts on converting something like that for a permanent coop? Not sure how the plastic...

We're just moving across town. I could ask them to do that, but I'm not sure that the lady would love that I'm already talking about digging up some of her million flowers ;) It's in South Dakota, so it will get cold, but not at the end of September. Or at least not so cold that it'll be...

We'll be moving here shortly, and though the folks who bought our house wanted our coop, I refuse to give them our ladies. So now I'm trying to figure out exactly what the best way to go about moving them with us is. They're just going to have to deal with tight accommodations for a couple...

Holy crap, that's some heavy reading lol. I'm glad it gave pictures, too, though, since I have no idea what to look for visually. I forgot to mention, the hens are about 28 weeks, so I suppose the one could just not be laying yet. I never actually counted out how many weeks before. From what...