Building a chicken coop— waterproofing? +coop plans

[AmeliaBedelia]

Wire open or remove one of the two human-sized doors. Then have your coop securely attached so it covers that entire opening. That wall of the coop can then have the chicken door in it - the wall itself just needs to be at least as big as the human-sized door.

I'd also consider making a larger cleaning door on that side if you sweep your coop bedding out into the run to finish composting. If you remove it to an official compost pile, then your only cleaning/human entry door for the coop could be on one of the sides of the coop outside the run.

Build your egg doors, etc on the sides of the coop outside the run. Unless you like to have to go into the poopy run to grab eggs. I don't...main drawback to MY current set up.

 

[3KillerBs]

The reason I was hoping to put it inside the run was because I don’t really have a way to attach it. My run is actually an old dog lot and has only two doors, both human sized. I just thought it would be difficult to attach something chicken sized to a human sized door.

Can you post a couple pics of the run? It may help us to better help you.

This.

There's a lot of accumulated experience here to draw on.