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And an update -- this coop is coming along slowly, but the chickens don't seem to mind all that much. I hope to get both the run and the nest box up in the next few weeks. Meanwhile, here's what it looks like and how it's working. Chickens down the hatch! I generally put clippings...

Ok, photos with roosts/shelf and chickens!

Whoops. I meant 15"! Not 15'! That'd be a really awesome, tall coop, but that's about 5' more than I have! re: the scratch pad, if they can't go out, they go down. That's generally where I put kitchen scraps, scratch grains, etc., so they can dig around -- I am letting the litter build up...

(I know it looks like we took all summer to do very little, but the trellis and underdeck roofing were part of the coop construction.)

According to what I've been reading, I only need one per four chickens -- does that sound right? I thought I'd put that in the lower right. I only plan to have four -- that seems like a good, manageable number.

Ok, here goes...and as I look at this, I realize I'm overstating the dimensions. I don't have a shot with the roosts in, unfortunately. The outside: The inside, no roosts. Also, note that the hatch is now about half that size with a plank for the chickens to walk down to their scratching...

Mine is a sort of chicken tower -- it's 4X4X10. My husband designed it with a hatch down to a compost/scratching pit (completely enclosed with hardware cloth that's buried) for those days when they can't go outside, and then the coop is elevated over top. I wanted a bit more room, but we're...

I have a small coop made out of scrap materials, and there was a measurement problem with one of the roosts my husband made. So we temporarilly put a shelf up top and mounted another roost across a corner. The shelf allows a vantage point out the only window in the coop. We're in...