After a couple of years with out chickens I decided it was time to take the plunge. Our new home is in a small Utah town and we are allowed to have animals, roosters included as long as they don't violate the noise ordnance. I am not sure if roosters can get that loud.
Now what comes first the Chicken or the coop? From my past adventure it is the coop. I had a hard time motivating myself to make another coop. My husband was too busy with work so one day I was browsing the classifieds in the poultry section, yes we have a poultry section, and I found a coop. It was new and the owners were moving and couldn't take it with them. I called that day and soon I had my coop. Now this coop was heavy and with the help of all my sons we loaded it and brought it home.
We used the old run we had not given away and attached it with a ramp. My son gave me these hens which are in their second season of laying. I get nice brown eggs. I have 4 red sex links, 2 Road Island reds and two buff Orpington's. They settled in nicely. 
Having the chickens motivated me to get busy building a couple of coops. I had decided to raise two breeds, Delawares and New Hampshire's. These two breeds are heritage birds and were once used in the poultry industry back in the 1940's before the hybrids became popular.
So I built a small coop for the roosters and another big coop for the hens. My husband calls them the chicken concentration camp. But I like to refer to them as my chicken condos.
Here are the two coops I built with runs. They are not as pretty but I did try to keep with the color scheme. My roosters are in the small middle coop and the young pullets are in the far end coop. My roosters will only get to visit the hens when I plan to hatch in the spring. But they get to socialize with both pens of hens on either side through the wire until then. 
