The coop is small, but it has a secure door that opens into the cloth wired surrounding area that is below the coop. I can leave that sliding door partway open, or completely open, which is what I do in the summer. They wake up and go into the lower area to eat and drink, and when I'm up...
I'm putting concrete down where I will place my hens' coop. They are outside free-ranging from dawn to dusk, and only go into their small coop to eat, drink, munch on egg shells and grit, and then go out again. At dusk they come in and eat/drink and I throw in some grubs for a treat and shut...