Rural Gardening: Situating coop in relation to house, 0 by Gwendalou

Gwendalou wrote:
Here is what I think I'm going to do.

I was going to put this coop (see photo) in the potager (we do have water out there but we turn it off in winter, and that's an excellent point that I hadn't thought of, which is exactly why I keep bugging all of you with good ideas and experience!) for the nice months and then get the randall burkey coop, either the 6x6 or the 4x6 (both on sale right now for great prices!) http://www.randallburkey.com and put it near the house next to the greenhouse in the original area I wanted to put the chickens.

Then I would move the chickens to the rear closer coop in the rainy months.

But now I think what I'm going to do it get this coop here and put it in the potager when it arrives. Then when the rains come, I'll pick the whole thing up and bring it to a little area right off the deck of the house. There are actually areas there they can free range and hopefully they'll stay off the deck. If not, I can move them a little bit farther.

Now to decide on which size. 3x4, 4x4, or 6x4. I'm leaning towards the 4x4. The runs are 6 feet long and then they are the width of whichever coop you order. So if I got the 4x4 coop, the runs would be 4x6.

Anyone see any big flaws with this plan?