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The most recent time I built a chicken coop, I was motivated by "the hatchery will sell out if I don't hurry up!" So I got the coop done, then ordered the chicks just before the hatchery was going to stop for that year. But I felt more comfortable doing it that way, because if I really dawdled...

I'm a big fan of doing the coop first, and then you can brood in the coop. People who start with the brooder, and then get the chicks, tend to be building the coop in a hurry because the chicks are growing so fast. Then if anything slows down the building project, they have a bit of a problem...

Basically yes. I would plan for the tallest person who might ever go in there (consider spouse, teenager, best friend, and potential chicken-tending-neighbor for vacations), then allow for the length of tool handles (no fun to have your rake banging the ceiling), and for bedding to pile up a...