3 or 4 Sides?

[welasharon]

Mine is like what Pat said. I have one solid wall and the rest is hardware cloth. I built half of it under an arbor with a vine on top. This winter I put plastic around the sides and they have done well. I am in North Florida.
Here you can see the right half under the arbor.

this shows the left half from inside (built in two stages because the first is never big enough!

and the last image shows the outside partial wall coming off the solid back wall of the left side

sharon

 

[barrelmom]

I live outside of Austin and I have a three sided coop. It works great. During this last cold spell I hung two heat lamps above the roost and had no problems. Ours is situated with the solid wall facing north to block the cold winds. I suspect that my birds would have been fine with no heat lamps as I could feel a real difference in the temps when I stepped in the coop. I'll take a picture today and post our setup.