Coop Design - Metal shed remodel. Help please!

[Hokum Coco]

I tore out the plywood floor, and set the shed's walls on bricks/cinder blocks to elevate the metal parts so there's no contact with the ground.

Texas climate is totally different from Canada climate.
Your land seems to slop off from the north side of your building that in my opinion could be used to your advantage when it comes to drainage.

I am on the east coast of Canada and subject to a lot more rain. That sort of set up would face more challenges in my environment with my soil, poor dranage, and climate extremes.

In my climate I would possibly think of a vapour barrier between the soil and my litter. You can take that for what it is worth.

I would put more stock into someones opinion that lives closer to you with the same or similar set up.

I think you are employing good sound judgment and I hope everything works out well for you.

I know I'm going to have to do a lot of ventilation for sure. Have to think of a way to close up when it gets cold.

All of my doors open out. I inset the hinges for the inner hardware cloth screen doors to allow my door to swing out also in conjunction with the plywood door.

Another approach is to cut openings and cover hardware cloth from the inside of the coop to form a screened window and hinge the stock you cut out of the opening to server as a shutter. Simple matter to prop it open the desired amount. That is how the windows in my coop doors are done.

Ventilation is never much of a problem in my set up I can get as little or as much as I need.

 

[aart]

What I was hoping would work, is if I tore out the plywood floor, and set the shed's walls on bricks/cinder blocks to elevate the metal parts so there's no contact with the ground. I would also bury a barrier around it. Then I could fill that space with my litter. Does that make sense? It works in my head. But, in my head, I can also rollerblade and breathe underwater

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Yes definitely. Also to divert rain water so it won't be muddy. I could put a rain barrel at one end to collect!

LMAO!! I literally laughed out loud at this this morning...needed that laugh, thanks, being snowbound in single digit temps and double digit winds.

It does make sense. Tear out the floor and see what you've got at the base of the shed and if you can lift it somehow.
You might be able to dig out the corners and put the block under them then dig out the rest to place remaining blocks.
You can only plan so much, then you've got to go at it and see what you've got to work with and how to accomplish what you want.