It looks a lot like the coop I bought 8 years ago. I had 4 tiny Dutch bantams in it. But its really too small for 6 Wyandotte’s. This coops come in several sizes. What is you’re size?
This is what I did to expand for more chickens:
I opened the side on the right and made an extension to the old coop. There I made a poop board on 2’ height and 2 roost bars 0.5’ above it.
The poop board is above the pot with sand where they can take a sand-bath even when its raining. I made lots of ventilation and light in it. (Closing north and east side in winter).
The chickens can choose where to sleep. But they prefer the extension, except for 1, who sometimes likes to sleep solitary. And in the old coop she sleeps on a roost I added myself which is 1’ heigher as the original roosts.
p.s. Its made with all kind of left overs. The posts / construction timber for the frame were from plans to build a room on our attic which we never build. The wrc was a left over from building a bicycle shed. And the glass/plexiglass were from a table and a left over from an exibition. The hwc was a left over from a rabbit-run. The black ‘paint’ is natural: a fungi that conserves wood (Xhylo). And I got it for free in return for making a web page. I only had to buy hardware like screws and hinges.
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