Good idea Sarge, I do the same most times...
Way to go Annie, we use everything around here, even if it does not look pretty.
Want to Start Having Chickens
I have a Huge old dog House that my Dearly departed Great Dane used to live in. It has been remodeled to accomodate my Seramas. It is surrounded with a 10 x10x6 ft kennel fencing to make a really good compound. I had surrounded it with heavy duty bird netting on the inside to keep my tiny Seramas from going through the links. I recently had to go around the outside with a "Rescued" Trash to Treasure 4 ft by 30 ft pool enclosure. this ws to discourage varmits . Not too pretty but so far it works!
You might find coops on craigslist. I did a search and found this in my area:
http://nh.craigslist.org/search/grd?query=coop&srchType=T&minAsk=&maxAsk=
All sort of prices. Some of them are quite cute.