Thanks guys for that Texan hospitality
bunch more ideas to consider and some ideas finally now set in stone.
This is what I've come up with so far....
We have that nice south breeze too in the summer so we are going to put in at least 2 vent doors on the south side which will be covered with hardware cloth. The north side (which will open to the run and be about 2/3 of the front) will be attached on hinges so we can keep it open (or closed). To allow the air to move through the coop better. So it will essentially be a 3 sided coop most of the year.
We plan on just having the door area cut out (and attaching a door in the winter if needed). I am not an early riser so the solution to having to open a coop door every morning was just not to have one. Of course this means our run will have to be more secure so nothing can get to them at night.
We plan on having a poop pit too and I was worried about the draft from that but I think a board that slides under it should work.
We do have electricity we can run to the coop so I am not to worried about that now, it would be nice if someone would invent a heat lamp that works like a thermostat. (Can you use a space heater? Pine shavings, fire, nevermind...)
I just can't wait to start construction on the dern thing, its the hubbie thats waiting till the chicks
are a little older.
I am just trying to avoid us running around last minute trying to build a coop looking like a pair of chickens that just got their heads cut off.
