8 foot might be fine for five hens. We have 11 chicks and we are doing a 6x9x6tall run. We are building it in panelsso it can easily be added on to. I plan on free ranging some day, like our two austrolorps do, but I'm needing to train the austrolorps to go into the coop and not on my porch at...
I have a very similar coop we bought at orchlens. It is too small for our two austrolorps, but they free range and picked the cat carriers on our porch as their choice of sleeping and nesting.... I got the coop to allow our 11 chicks outside time while we finish the big coop and run. I plan on...