Hi Colleen, We don't have chickens yet but we are building a shed on the back side of what we call our "barn" and one fourth of it will be for my chickens. They will have a roof over them and chicken wire on the sides (and now that I've read the other threads, possibly concrete under the chicken wire so things can't dig under!) and I'm making a little pen adjacent to it so they can go outside when they want and be in the sun and it grass. It will just mainly be chicken wire.(posted 9667 days ago)What kind of chickens are you getting????? We are in north Alabama.