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DobieLover said:
Hello Rebecca, and welcome to BYC! :frow Glad you joined.
I have to agree with @janiedoe about your coop size. It's too small and poorly designed for ventilation. You can try to give it a go by increasing ventilation but it will be very difficult to do so without creating drafts on roosted birds during cold months. You could modify the coop portion to go all the way to the ground to give more vertical height for ventilation at the top.

Aprons are not dug down. Aprons are spread out on the surface of the ground and pinned at the opposite end from the coop and run. But that is certainly a security feature you should give to the setup.
There should be no holes anywhere in the setup that are greater than a 1/2" to keep small predators from gaining entrance in larger predators from being able to get a grip with their mouths to pull the wire off. I would also consider putting a solid roof over the run portion and make the entire setup your coop. Then either attach electrified poultry netting to make a larger pen area off to he coop or build another, larger covered run, shooting for 15 sq ft of space per bird.
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Sorry. I was referring to when you dig down 18 inches, set the 2 ft wide hardware cloth in, and bend the last 6 inches so that it is horizontal to the rest of the cloth.
 
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