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Nothing like a "local" to listen to and everything I have read from @Alaskan is sound and practical. BYC is a network, if one longtimer does not have the answer they will tag someone who does. I live in an area that has cold and snowy winters. The first year with chickens my run was under the...

I remembered after my post above reading that pine needles also can be added to a run. I have no experience but a bit of searching will find such posts.

You want deep wood chips/mulch. That will get the chicken up from the moisture and will help any droppings break down and disappear without creating a stink. If you have deciduous trees gather great piles in the fall and put it in on top of the chips along with any bedding you remove from your coop.

@Alipete21 BYC is an awesome place, folks with long excellent experience and knowledge more than willing to share. I recommend that you ask any questions you may have BEFORE you proceed, you will get almost immediate responses, sometimes there will be differences but the combination of...

Mice can get through holes larger than one half inch. Unless you were extremely careful it is likely that there will be holes of that size. Caulking will not stop mice, steel wool jammed in is the best approach then caulking to tidy it up. Fall is the normal time that mice are looking for comfy...

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/116960/how-much-energy-in-form-of-heat-does-a-human-body-emit#116965 A man give off 409 BTUs per hour, a woman about 340.77 BTUs. I saw various numbers at rest, exercising etc so it varies but this gives you an idea.

I looked at your pictures again and see that you have paneled your inside walls. Have you also insulated the walls? Insulation inside the walls provides an ideal environment for pests including mice, rats etc. Do some research herein, you will find all manner of horror stories of folks who have...

The goal of deep bedding in a coop is to keep things dry. Dry bedding does not give off heat. If your bedding is wet you are going to have respiratory issues and frost bite on combs/waddles. Scientific experiments have been done that show that a chicken gives off 10 watts of energy, the...

Appropriate (ie no drafts hitting your flock while on their roosts) and sufficient (rule of thumb is 1 sq ft/bird) ventilation are critical to chicken health. What warm air is your construction friend referring to? Cold hardy chickens can successfully survive in temperatures below -30 without...