Penny, just as a suggestion, and for things that have never worked for me, make it large enough and tall enough for you to enter in comfortably and for you to house all of your LF you intend to have sleeping there at night next year. Why not make it outside the chain link, with an entrance into the chain link fence. You will probably always need a broody building, and a juvie building. Eventually you will have to have a bachelor pad too. I have three coops and it seems I never have enough buildings.I have a question. I have my 5 Reds that are 15 weeks old. I need to build them a sleeping coop so I can get my chicks into the coop they are presently in, in a couple of weeks. We only use the coops so that I can lock them up at night. Coop will be inside the covered chain link pen. How tall do I need to make the coop so that they will be comfortable at night? It will be 1 RC cockerel and 4 pullets.
Penny
I also have a temporary A frame building. It is larger than a large dog house and I can put in roosting posts if i need to separate. I do not like it because I have to crawl into it to get out a bird if they do not want to come out. I have a cupola in this side but that is for nesting only. I put ducks on this side.
Building outside of the fence..the fence goes all the way around the building, except the front side.
Inside of building..
Or this A frame
This is also the back side of the fencing.