6×6 Chicken Coop Plans for Up to 6 Chickens

What the Plan Models

The 3D plan, framing drawings, and BOM include the coop house with a walk-in clean-out door and window, an exterior-access nesting box bank, roost bars, a pop door with ramp, a ridge vent, predator latches, and (on run plans) a hardware-cloth run on 4×4 posts with a ground apron under the extended roof. Feeders, waterers, and automatic door openers are accessories you add after the build.

About This Design

Thirty-six square feet is the smallest footprint that still lets an adult walk in to clean, and at the engine's 4 square feet of floor per hen it houses six birds with room to spare. This 6×6 gable coop puts a 32-inch clean-out door on the gable end, a single high window on the side wall for light, and a ridge vent sized to the floor area so summer heat leaves through the roof instead of the door.

The coop modules are in the plan, not left as homework: a three-bay nesting box bank bumps out the side wall with a lift-up lid for collecting eggs from outside, roost bars step up the opposite wall above nest height, and a 16-inch pop door with a cleated ramp gives the flock its own way out to whatever run or yard you fence. Every one of those pieces is framed, cut-listed, and priced.

Key Features

• 36 sq ft walk-in coop sized for up to 6 hens at 4 sq ft per bird
• Three-bay exterior-access nesting box bank with lockable lift-up lid
• Stepped roost bars on the wall opposite the nests, 90 linear inches
• 16×22 pop door with cleated ramp, plus a 32-inch clean-out door
• Continuous ridge vent under hardware cloth, sized to the floor area

Build Notes

Frame and sheathe the shell first, then cut the nesting-box rough opening and the pop-door opening before siding goes on — both are laid out on the wall framing drawings. The nest bank is a simple plywood box that hangs on the studs; keep the sill at the drawn 18 inches so the boxes sit below roost height and hens sleep above the nests, not in them.

Roost bars are removable 2×4s on the flat set in cleats so they lift out for cleaning. Cover the ridge vent opening with ½-inch hardware cloth from the inside before the ridge cap goes on. This plan has no attached run: fence a yard off the pop door, or step up to the 8×12 coop-with-run if you want the run framed under the same roof.

Best For

Best for a first-time backyard flock of 4 to 6 hens where yard space is tight and you still want to walk in rather than reach through a hatch. Fence a run off the pop door, or move up to the 8×10 plan for more interior room, or the 8×12 coop-with-run if you want the run framed in the same plan set.