TeeHee ~ chickeneering never ends
.We thought the Barn Coop would be great outdoors in the weather elements... nope, we had to tarp it from rain & brutal sun... kind of defeats the purpose of a brand new Barn Coop!
So we moved it to a patio slab & had a patio roof built over it! We can walk out our sliding kitchen door to the nestbox & not get rained on any more!
Because we have the tall Barn Coop Condo the run is equally tall w/ a broad full-size door so we stand upright in the run. The shorter coops obviously will have not-so-tall doors/runs. We got tired of soggy wet mud in our old old old run & chose to have a concrete floor & a patio roof over the new investment. All this didn't happen at once financially ~ it was a 4-yr process getting to this end. Plus working w/ chickens is an ever-evolving process anyway.
We like the dog kennel wire cuz it would need a gorilla or grizzly to tear that wire apart. Our suburb raccoons & possums can't reach into the heavy shed coop or tear the wire panels. We've even had a coyote jump into our yard from a neighbor's roof in the early morning before our hens were up & we had no worries how sturdy the coop & run are built!
I love our sturdy Tuff Shed type wall material, not plastic. W/ the wire floor, all the straw & poop fall to the concrete floor & we sweep it up ~ or hose it down once in a great while. My 2nd choice for a coop quite possibly might be plastic like an Omelet or Hampel Ultimate Coop but they still don't have the sturdier housing or heavy run panels I like.
Here's the 1st coop we started with ~ a fantastic design custom-built by a feed store customer except the materials he used were cheap. Absolutely loved the design but not the cheap material.
Still, after we had it for 4 yrs a neighbor wanted it w/its great design & hauled it off for his backyard flock.
W/ our Pomegranates & Guavas in bloom every season I haven't needed to put out our hummie feeders. It's fun watching them flit around ~ & they don't bother the chickens!
I thought it was too. Such amazing little creatures. 
It is what it is!
