It's all about dimensions

[Poppy Putentake]

What everyone designing a coop needs is to know is what range the dimensions for everything should be; height, width and depth of nesting boxes; height of roosts over poop boards, size of poop boards; width and steepness of ramps; etc..

Has all this ever been compiled in one place? It would be kind of inefficient to search for all these numbers one at a time in this forum, or to ask for one measurement at a time. (Granted, there are disagreements and controversies about these measurements, but that could be noted as part of the information.)

 

[Shadrach]

What everyone designing a coop needs is to know is what range the dimensions for everything should be; height, width and depth of nesting boxes; height of roosts over poop boards, size of poop boards; width and steepness of ramps; etc..

Has all this ever been compiled in one place? It would be kind of inefficient to search for all these numbers one at a time in this forum, or to ask for one measurement at a time. (Granted, there are disagreements and controversies about these measurements, but that could be noted as part of the information.)

There are no standards that make any sense. A coop that works in one place with those chickens doesn't necessarily work in another place with different chickens.
I think what you are asking for isn't a going proposition.
Much better in my opinion is that people are encouraged to think about the type of coop they need and the breeds to go in them than be dictated to by some set of measurements and recommendations.
I've built all sorts of coops and adjusted others in two distinct climates and all of them had their good and bad points.

There are some basic guidlines for security, comfort and ease of maintainance. Take security for example, I would always choose to build a coop off the ground and not attatched to the run fence. A rectangle within a rectangle if that makes the idea any clearer. Having the fence going all the way around the coop rather than just on the run gives an extra layer of defense. I have a friend that leaves his dog in the run at night. He hasn't had a coop break in yet.

Other people have found large walk in coops with runs attatched to one side of the coop has worked well for them and have meshed (Hardware Cloth) the other three wooden coop walls to prevent rodents chewing holes in the coop.

 

[linguini]

@3KillerBs is the best person I can think of that often has all these numbers handy!

 

[Poppy Putentake]

There are no standards that make any sense

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