We decided that we would locate the chickens at the bottom of our garden. There is fairly long line of conifers all the way along the back of the garden which we preceeded to trim away the lower branches and expose an area approx 10 -12 feet wide and probably 50 ft long. we are planning on 2-4 chickens so they had planty of room.
I looked for specific plans for a chicken house on the internet and was disappointed with what I found so proceeded to gather together all the wood I had stacked here and there and design my own. The only criteria I had in my mind was that it needed to be fiarly easy to clean and bid enough to allow us to expand our flock should we want to.
This is what I came up with:







