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Thank you everybody. We are in a mild climate. Does get cold in winter some but then last year everyone was wearing t-shirts Christmas Day. Cold/wet winters, hot/dry summer's generally though we are now in the third year of a very bad drought (northern California). I don't have coop dimensions offhand. It seems like it's well-ventilated to me. The roof isn't vented but there's a little door with a screen window to the roosting area and there's a wooden slide door that the ramp leading into/out of the coop goes to that I just leave open, then the little yard screened in yard. I don't clean it nearly enough. They don't use the roosting pole, they sleep in the nesting boxes so I need to block them somehow. This is inside a dog pen with a tarp roof.
 
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JerseyGray said:
I have two laying hens in my backyard. Their my girls pets and our egg supply though we still buy from the store as well. I think it's been around six months we've had them now so it's well past time I start learning more about keeping them! I feel our coop is to small for two full-sized hens. A pre-made we bought off Amazon, a lot of reviewers did say they found it a good size for a pair of banties but not full-size. It was supposed to be more temporary than it has been, haha. The biddies are let into the yard around 7 am and locked back in the pen around 7 pm (they have full access to our large and securely fenced backyard). We get one to two eggs a day. I forget what kind they are offhand, I'll have to ask my friend again (bought them from a friend thinning her flock), but one is red while the other is speckled black and white.
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