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A chicken coop should be situated where the drainage is good and not in the wet or problematic areas of your yard. Elevate a chicken coop from the ground at least 1 foot for a variety of reasons.

The walls of the chicken coop need to be well insulated. This will help keep your chickens warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Isolating the walls will also help keep the chickens dry. In colder climates, when your chickens are dry, they can withstand the cold.

ood shavings and straw are both great beddings for chicken coops and I personally love the smell of clean shavings in a warm coop, but when used as a flooring in an uncovered run, wood shavings and straw can become soggy and work into the ground fairly quickly making the run difficult to clean

Elevate a chicken coop off the ground at least 1 foot for many reasons. An elevated coop ensures air can circulate around the coop, can prevent flooding in flood-prone areas, and prevents rats and mice from nesting.

My tip is to use chicken wires for the chicks coops flooring. for the manure droppings, and excess food and water to drop and clean easy.

I usually make my own coop. but it's great that someone can teach us on how we can build a tough one. well... the proper way to build one that is.