Is it Necessary? Is it Desirable? Is it Adequate?

[blucoondawg]

You have 4 hens? You could get away with a relatively small coop incorporated into the tractor design, just a secure box for them to go into at night. Sheds can be built in many different ways, for example I have a large shed which is simply setting on blocks, this is how I am building my chicken coop as well. That would be one example of a non permanent structure. Your 4 hens need such a small coop it would be simple to make it manageable to move around.

 

[3KillerBs]

That was my plan -- to have a coop incorporated into the design. But I wondered if it would be OK to leave the door open so they could go in and out at will.

From mid-June to mid-August the nighttime lows are higher here than a lot of people's daytime highs.

I was going to post sketches today, but can't get Sketch-up to download so I might have to draw it on paper and get my architecture-student daughter to put them on the CAD software for me instead.

 

[3KillerBs]

As of breakfast this morning DH decided that we shall have a non-mobile coop and run with a separate temporary pen to move them about the yard.

He over-engineers everything and figures that a tractor with 32-40 square feet of run space and 16 square feet of coop space can only be too heavy for me to move alone and too rigid to cope with the many tree roots in the yard.

So total re-design.

And I still can't get sketch-up to download.