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10 adult, standard-size hens would need 40 square feet. Half that for bantams is 20 square feet. That's 4x5 feet. I'm about to clock in for work so I don't have time to do the metric conversion.

What is the actual floor area of the coop minus nestboxes and the playhouse minus the space that internal, floor-level nestboxes will take up? 2 square feet per bird for bantams is .19 square meters. This is approaching caged layer territory. :( Here's an excerpt from an article I'm...

The first one is larger if it's in reasonable condition. I noticed that in the second one you have to buy the floor separately. Does the first one have a floor?

Yes, that looks better. It's so much easier to ventilate a taller coop.

Those little playhouses probably share all the problems inherent to prefab chicken coops -- flimsy, impossible to ventilation, and expensive compared to a real coop. Here are some good shed conversions: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/aarts-coop-page.65912/...