I might have been able to blindly blunder into something similar, but never would have given the shade aspect a second thought. Other than that, it's essentially rotational grazing, which I'm not unfamiliar with.
The problem I was having I divided the coop in half. Making it difficult to let each set of birds out without designing chutes. If I make it one coop then it will be identical to the plan. Including the window to throw the poop piles out. And I have plenty of fencing to work out the center compost part.
Nice plan. This really brings it together for me.

got an extra ten bucks though for babysitting
