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Yeah, I stock up on a few bales of straw for covering the snow in winter to give them something to walk on. I only have one building with the bottom of the door at ground level so that is the only one I have to dig out. That building is usually for brooding chicks so they don't always come out...

That's my point. Every manufactured coop I've seen has more nests than the number of birds it will reasonably hold. They could take some of the money it cost to make the nests and make the coop bigger. No matter how many nests, 3 hens will likely only use one nest.

It is insane to me that a coop which holds 3 birds will have 6 nest boxes. That's your first clue that the company building the coop knows nothing about chickens.

Regardless of what you have to do to make it suitable, it is still nice to get something like that for free. It should accommodate 3 birds. I tend to disagree with most people on the ventilation vs. drafts thing. Chickens can roost in trees (till taken by a predator). I don't know how to keep...