and even if your GF can't build - a hoop coop w/ wire attached is not hard to do. She can sit on the ground and attach the wire of your choice - HC, chicken wire or 2x4" - with zip ties or hog rings. Can attach all wire to inside or outside before putting it up.
I think you'll also find the CP Hoop coops are more stable and will last under a snow load where you are - better than a PVC one. I could be wrong. But everything we've built with PVC has broken in less than 6 months. Yet we still try it in other projects, so... My CP hooped projects (some temporarily tied w/ haystring) have lasted many years and I can't fit anything properly in wood, so.
For your run, there are so many options.
You can still use CP to hoop the run and instead of any type of roofing, just cover in wire or if truly no predators or cats (see my cat below!!), you can use bird aviary netting (plastic).
Poultry netting made hot. This will be open at the top, just temporary hot fencing that you can move to put your birds out in different areas.
Do fencing like Aart's - check out her coop page. She used fencing & t-posts, then shaped chain link fence tubing and did 2x4" wire over that.
You could do pvc hooped over with wire/netting. Or you could put in a center board running the full length of run, centered, put wire or netting draped down to your run fencing. Again so many ways to do inexpensively - just depends on what your predator load is.
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