Should I build a new run???!!!

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Hey,
I have six chickens and my current run is about 2 feet off the ground. It is not convenient because I cannot go into the run and I have had about enough of with it. I think I want to make the run so I can go in it not too tall but tall enough to where it’s OK if I bend down a little but I can get into it. I am 5’8” so it wouldn’t need to be too tall but pretty tall. Does anyone have any plans for a run that looks nice because we live in a residential area and I would not want it looking like an eyesore but also functional? Thank you so much!
 
I found a plan online that’s exactly 8 x 8 and I am not going to do a slanted roof. How much would a project like this cost? Hard wire cloth and chicken wire is so expensive!

If there is any chance that you'll ever want to put an actual roof on it -- maybe so you don't have to shovel it after ever snowfall? -- you will want it slanted so that precipitation runs off to the extent possible. Flat roofs have to be very well reinforced so that they don't collapse under snow load.
 
If there is any chance that you'll ever want to put an actual roof on it -- maybe so you don't have to shovel it after ever snowfall? -- you will want it slanted so that precipitation runs off to the extent possible. Flat roofs have to be very well reinforced so that they don't collapse under snow load.
Ok. I am not very experienced so I don’t know how to do a slant roof
 
Does anyone have any plans for a run that looks nice because we live in a residential area and I would not want it looking like an eyesore but also functional?
yes.

16x8 all enclosed and fully roofed with a slanted roof.

this was taken in the winter, but now the grass has grown back in around the excavation site and it looks great.

i also won’t tolerate an eyesore in my yard.
 

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