Why are so many coop designs elevated?

[birdicus7]

My coop is elevated for 2 reasons. First my run is totally covered underneath the coop for bad weather and snow. Second it lets me back my wagon up to it and sweep right into it for an easy clean out. I lucked out that it puts my nest boxes at the perfect height collecting eggs.

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

Mine is off the ground to prevent moisture from rotting my wood floor. I didn't want to pour a concrete base, so I elevated it just a few inches.

 

[andysforrest]

Ours is elevated on concrete building blocks because we didn't want to have to purchase a building permit. Our coop is 12 x 10 with a walk-in feed storage area. Then there's another door to enter the actual coop. We have hardware cloth around the bottom to prevent chickens from going under (not enough space) and also to try and limit the rats/predators underneath.

 

[Weedchick]

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Thanks new2! I've been lucky so far, we do have a couple of good varmint chasing dogs, and the girls are locked in the coop from dusk to dawn, but I know the "If you build it they will come" adage really applies to chickens. So next spring I'll add hot wire and come up with a protection plan for the over head attacks. The enclosure started life as a dog run for our big dogs, then become a berry garden,and now it's a chicken run. If we had started from scratch we probably would have designed the run covered.

 

[Dunkopf]

It gives the kids a place to camp out.

 

[aussiedude248]

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Mine is elevated off the ground a few inches because we have a small bobcat here and the coop is for 3 male mallards + I live in FL and the heat can make it smell as off last year, and way is it elevated? so air can get down there for the smell.

You may look at my BYC page to see.