That's funny to me, when I first started getting chickens here, my husband said to keep them out in the big shed, I though it was a crazy idea, but it worked out great and has given me lots of room to keep lots of chickens which seems to help prevent a lot of problems.
I get my chicks in late spring so it's warming up and drying out by the time I'm ready to move them to the coop, depending on the temperature outside I put them in the same shed as the older ones at 6-8 weeks, when I no longer need to provide heat, in my large fowl shed I have a coop within the...