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Thank you. She's using Autodesk on her home computer. I gave her rough drawings and she prettied them up for me so any errors in measurements are probably mine.

Thanks for all the input, everyone. I'm redrawing the plans to incorporate various suggestions and will post the revision once my daughter revises them. Very convenient having an architecture student in the family.

You have a great-looking arrangement and I absolutely love it. If we were on acreage in the country I'd do something like that -- especially if I had an existing outbuilding to work with. I liked the concept of the "Fresh Air Coops" that I saw on other threads but there seems to be a minimum...

Snow is almost never an issue here. In the 6.5 years we've lived here we've had snow once a year on average with one year having snow twice and another having no snow at all. I think the heaviest fall I've seen was 3 inches and the longest it lasted was 2 days. The very worst year we had a few...

I'd secure the panels somehow -- even if only to tie them in place with a twist of wire. Knowing how cleverly cats can get into kitchen cupboards and how hard it is to keep raccoons out of garbage cans I'd be concerned that panels held by gravity along could be shifted open just by pushing on...

Thank you all. Your help is invaluable -- all the book knowledge in the world can't compare to real-world experience. Raising the run height to 6 feet to allow human access would approximately double the cost of the lumber and wire, which would be a problem for us. I know many people have good...

You must be much larger and stronger than I am.

I thought of two, specific questions: 1. Should I make a removable panel on the side of the run so that an adult can get in squatting if necessary? Not necessarily another hinged door, but something like a 3'x3' panel that could be taken off at need? 2. How would I best attach a nipple...

The noise is not excessively loud. You can hold a conversation without raising your voice. But both households find that the "white noise" effect of the heat pumps masks yard noise from the other house. They hold pool parties and we barely notice. We have the gaming group every week with the...

This morning DH decided that if he built a tractor to the size desired for 4 hens it would be too heavy to move so he declared that we'd have a non-mobile coop and separate, temporary pen instead. He even offered to move the firewood rack to put the coop in the optimum spot -- right between our...