We decided to go ahead and get some chickens so I got started on the coop.
I am using the materials that I have on hand for the most part and only able to work on it on weekends at the time so it is going a bit slowly. I also only have a rough sketch in my head of how I want it to look so it is a lot of thinking as I go.
The rough plan is a 6ft by 6ft hen house built pole barn style sitting 2ft off the ground so the chickens can have a bigger run with less materials. Attached to the hen house will be a 12ft by 6 ft run. Both the run and hen house will have a 6 ft minimum ceiling and I want to be able to stand up when I have to go in. Also the ground that I am building on is not very level so a pole barn seems to be the easiest way to work around that.
This is where I am putting the coop. The light metal is where the house will be and the rusty metal is over the run. (Don't worry, I have better metal for the roof, this is just to help me visualize.) The small upright pipes are where the poles will go.
You can also see how much planning I put into this project as I cut the overgrown brush and stuck some markers down, did some thinking and then got to work.