Well done! I spent about 3 years experimenting with all this in a similar size coop for my 6-15 chickens and came up with the same layout. I'll offer another tip: I have one high roost on either side of the coop, enough for each bird to have a foot in summer. Under each is a waist high shelf, about 3" wider on either side of the roost. I keep about 1-1/2" of sawdust on the shelves. It absorbs the moisture immediately so the poop does not stick and dries very quickly. Just about every day I scoop and sift the poops with a cat litter scoop, then sprinkle on a handful of fresh sawdust. It takes about 5-10 mins and I don't have to stoop or shovel. i don't even have to cover the floor because as you said, the chickens just don't spend time moving around the coop except to get to the nesting boxes below. I get sawdust free from a guy with a sawmill just outside of town, and use much much less than straw or hay or expensive pine shavings. A 50 lb repurposed feed bag is enough sawdust to last about 2 months for 9 chickens. The scooped out poop immediately goes into the compost pile so there is virtually no odor from the coop. In my moderate climate, NC, deep litter is not needed and just becomes a stinky mess to shovel out and replace. Happy Chickening :)

We have a plywood poo board --- works great. It takes less than 1 min to scrape clean and my coop smells clean (no smell) poo goes in pail - then out to compost pile. To make the scraper I take a long one by one stick and I screwed on a piece of plywood that was shaped like a rectangle to the stick- sort of looks like a hoe... Works great and I clean the poop board in less than 1 minute. SECOND TIP, RUB agriculture line or First Saturday Lime across the underside of the roost bar board...WHY? I HEARD MITES LIKE TO HIDE ON THE UNDERSIDE OF THE ROOSTING BAR -- I RUB (ON ALL SIDES) WITH THAT FIRST SATURDAY LIME TO PREVENT THE MITES FROM ON THE UNDERSIDE OF THE ROOST BAR AND THEN FEEDING OFF OF THE BIRDS AT NIGHT. I ALSO PUT THAT AGRICULTURE LINE FOR THE FIRST SATURDAY LIME AND ALL OF THE CRACKS AND CREVICES OF THE CHICKEN COOP... WHEN I BUILT MY CHICKEN COOP I ALSO PAINTED THE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR OF THE COUPE TO PAINT AND SEAL ALL OF THE CRACKS AND CREVICES.... I HOPE THAT INFORMATION IS HELPFUL.

Here in Alaska The Old Timers Say: Six inches is Very Important so they Sit on their Feet to Keep from Freezing their toes

Great video! I especially like that you discussed the spacing of the roosts (ie. the poop) . My chickens love to check out anything new so I wonder if yours will choose to retake their positions later on . BTW, High marks for coop ventilation. I'm takig notes for a possible future coop build. :)

Nice and simple bud! I like that. Just built my coop and wanted a straight simple roosting solution and you had it. My coop is small 4x8 so I wanted the chickens to be comfortable but also be able to easily clean it. Good job!

That's pretty cool. Glad most of them could fit. Aww poor Snowdrop. Late Happy Easter to you. Happy to hear you're a fellow believer. I would have commented but you set it to kids and that closes comments and faves.

Just my two cents, I use 2x3s dimension studs for my roosts. This is the perfect size. It is my opinion the 2x4s are a bit too large for an adult chicken and will add problems with foot issues. I use sandpaper to remove sharp imperfections that may cause splintering. I the spring and fall I clean them again with sandpaper. The important part is being horizontal. You'd want a high roost bar to avoid chickens roosting on nest boxes, which should be around a foot lower than your roosts.

Great video! My chickens also prefer the highest roost.

Amazing stuff sir!

See if colonel sanders gets the upper roost again tomorrow. Maybe not

The higher you go the more she-it on the walls..

Why not also raise the lower roost bar to match the high one so all the birds can roost high, then the pecking order will become irrelevant?

I took a year off before I build my coop, I did a lot of research , to prevent fighting, to spread poop from landing in just one place, and making sure chickens don't sleep in nesting boxes, Carolina coops has the best roosting bars design, mixed with a elevated coop and using the deep litter method, I consider it the best design, My only modifications to their design was, a fold up deep litter ladder and a fold up deep litter roost bar for even easier cleaning. All roost bars are removable.

Do the ones on the lower roost get pooped on? How far apart should I put them?

R u worried about injury when they fly down? It looks high.

Those were not Lavender Orpington chickens right ?

Too flat. Round over a bit and change axis 90.