Woods Open Air Coop on a Trailer build - Roof material?

[Spiridon]

Hello! I'm almost done building our coop, inspired by people here / the Woods Open Air design. I started last year and couldn't finish before winter, and then held off starting again until this fall... I can't remember now, is there any advantage to using standard shingles vs a metal roof? I was planning to do metal but in the back of my head I feel like I read something saying to use shingles. If metal I was going to air gap it for ventilation between the sheathing.

I messed up on my dimensions for the top window vent so it's a bit smaller I think than recommended, and some other things I probably messed up. My first time building anything this big. Coop size is 8x8x12, with a 2ft storage section in the back so total size 8x14. I built it on a trailer because I think we'll move one day and wanted to be able to take it with us lol.

Anyway, thanks for any input. Hoping to finish this coming week.

 

[saysfaa]

It doesn't matter.

In the book, he recommends shingles and doesn't mention another types of roofing. But his shingles were wood shakes, made with a draw knife by the builder. The books were written in the 1920''s mostly. Options and relative costs of building supplies were very different.

His main premises were this kind of chicken housing was far healthier and it could be built cheaply by boys or girls.

*Anyway, I think the shingles were made by the builder because he has a draw knife in the list of equipment needed and that is what a draw knife did. Also, the picture of roof detail with shingles labeled shows wooded "boards" as shingles.

**Draw knives do other things too.