It's too nice for my chickens.... :(

[Mother of Chaos]

Also, I'd either build it a LOT higher off the ground, or I'd build it as it currently sits, but screen the exposed openings underneath with hardware cloth, because they WILL: go underneath and refuse to come out; lay eggs under there; get sick or injured and need to be dragged out. Also non-poultry critters hanging out underneath - skunks, anyone? Or rats that ate poison bait somewhere and decided to die underneath the coop.

 

[Dat1Turkee]

Id make it a screen/wire porch- possibly the whole place screened around it. then maybe add nest boxes and access to the back or side- and a steeple or cross vent with dormers on roof - and maybe add a storage bench or closet somehow on front also. He did it with just random little trees off his land and there aren't any nails in it beside the roof obviously.

 

[perkolator]

That's a pretty awesome goat house!

Lots of work to use logs, but if I had all those trees I'd likely be using them too - will you be doing the same?

I could see this design being tweaked a little to make it into a chicken coop. This is probably what I would do:
- I imagine the porch is the run, so reverse the proportions so it's bigger than the coop/cabin makes sense to me. However, that's a really cool porch, so I'd consider changing the design to have a run extend off the back of this structure (with or without roof extension), so that porch stays clean for human use.
- Keep the aesthetic of being raised off the ground, but don't install a floor in the porch/run area. Keep the horizontal girder at that height, but add solid wall below it to retain bedding. Use 1/2" hardware cloth to block under the coop perimeter so nothing lives down there.
- Keep human door but also add chicken door.
- If you're concerned with draft and that type of wall construction, you could add solid paneling behind the slats. If you do that, I'd imagine it will breathe a lot less so consider adding another window somewhere, or perhaps leaving a way to keep the upper gables open (or to have an adjustable cover) might be sufficient for ventilation.
- Keep nest boxes internal and maybe add feed/supplies storage inside - for aesthetics.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Keeping chicken food on an open porch is a bad plan. Unless it is your intention to invite skunks, raccoons and other critters to tear into the bags and make a big honkin mess! Might work if you keep the food in critter-proof metal trash bins with raccoin-proof lids. And if you don't have bears.