A frame coop questions

[Spawndn72]

Anyone see anything wrong with this?
There will be a roosting bar running down the middle.
The door will be opposite the nesting boxes and does not show up in the sketch below.
I figured I don't need the vertical section to fold down on both sides as I can just sweep everything out on the one side.

 

[paneubert]

Where is the ventilation? Do you think sweeping out the floor will be harder if there is a roost bar running down the middle of the long end?

 

[Spawndn72]

The ventilation would be at the top on each end. The vents would be just above the chicken's heads when they are roosting, is that ok?

 

[paneubert]

How many square inches or feet of ventilation will that be? Location is fine, but amount/size may not be enough.

 

[Spawndn72]

Thanks for the advice.
How about Rev 3

 

[aart]

A-frames have many drawbacks IMO.
Hard to get good weather protected ventilation.
Those vents you have might have been easy to draw,
but will be hard to build and water proof.
(I'm an old drafter and had a machinist tell me early on,
"just because you can draw it, doesn't meant I can cut it.")
Head room, for keeper and chickens, gets tight at top.
Access for keeper to grab birds off roost is tough...
...and at 8' long even cleaning will be tough.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Not sure where you are located so I don't know what weather you are facing. If you go with that A-frame I'd suggest you consider a ridge vent along with the gable vents.

Aart mentioned many of the drawbacks of an A-Frame. Where will you feed and water them? A roost down the middle might mean poop in them.

Is there a reason you like that A-frame design? If I were going that route I'd make the vertical sides much taller before starting the A-frame roof. That would open the inside up tremendously. My personal preference would be a single sloped roof with the lowest side 4' high. To me it's easier to build and if you provide overhang you can put rain protected ventilation along both sides at the top of those walls.

Aart, a story. I'm an engineer that had to do a lot of my own drafting with Autocad many years ago. I appreciate what that mechanic told you. I once designed a massive support for a cantilever boom than involved thick steel welded together in strange ways. The contractor building it and my inspector watching him were old grizzled veterans. They called to say they could not figure out how to build it. I was able to walk them through it step by step including how to non-destructively test each step. How to build it and test it was part of the design. I won some respect that day. I could have put notes on the drawing on how to do that but I wanted to see if they could come up with a better way.

Sorry for the hijack, Spawndn72.