Thanks! It was the first building project of my life! Learned lots of things. Most of it was scavenged material from the previous owner. Old windows, old siding, old shingles, old cinder blocks.
You can totally build a coop that keeps predator's out. I have a dirt floor coop. Did a concrete footing + cinder block walls. Wood structure on top of that. I have put a hardware cloth run around 3 sides and buried the wire about a foot. Lots of predators visit the coop but none have...