I have a space in my Mom's yard that's 19ft long, 5ft wide, 6 ft height. I"m thinking of putting the chickens in this area which would still leave 4 feet of space to walk, take trashcans, etc. It is still another 4 feet from the garage wall which would out put heat from nearly 6 hours of sun during the summer. Overhead my neighbor's jungle of pomergrantes trees, geranium bushes, assorted...whatevers drag along the chain link fence. We have permission to cut those things back if they get in our way. (no way for those pomergrantes!)

I think a two foot tall wall as part of the coop would keep out the creeping nightmares and the geranium is not that close to cause problems. In fact they do provide shade during the hotter weather. I look outside shows part of are is bathed in shade at 12 noon. As you might know, So Cal summers can be brutally hot for as long as four months. However our winters (we are almost at 2900 ft) are freezing with lots of bitterly cold days(low to mid 20s to mid 30s), flood like conditions and on rare occasions snow. Ok so that isn't super cold but to a Native Calif anything under 70 is "cold" XD

Ok that was long winded so my questions is, with two small runs on either side plus using the old dog house as giant nesting boxes, do you think that could hold 10 chickens (minimum order from McMurray)?

I'm thinking of a flock with these breeds:

Easter Eggers

Plymouth Rock

Jersey Giant

Australorps

Delaware

Wyandotte

Thank you for your thoughts/comments. :)