Hey thanks Ed - this is going to be really useful! I had the general idea already drawn into my plan kind of eyeballing and guessing, but this will make it all scientific. Now I know I need to have the awning farther up above the windows than I had drawn.
I think beige with white trim looks nice with that roof colour. On the trim that is right along the edge of the roof, a dark green that goes with the lighter greens of the roof shingles.
But green with beige trim sounds really good too. I'd still do a dark green along the edge of the roof...
No experience myself, but I came across this some time ago and thought it sounded very practical - http://omelays.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-build-chicken-tractor-cheap.html
Garage coop pros and cons -
The main reason I ruled out using a corner of my storage garage is that it has very little daylight. I decided I didn't want to take the step of cutting a window in one side of the garage in case the coop or chickens didn't work out for some reason. Also, the...