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Originally Posted by NewChief
This is, basically, the type of shed I'm looking at converting. Currently I have it on a brick pad. The floor has some indoor/outdoor carpet in it. No enclosure and sheltered underneath a privet hedge back in the wood on the edge of our yard. I could move it pretty easily, but I'm thinking that putting it back in the woods a bit would protect the birds from overhead predators? I'll definitely build a run out into the "sunny" part of the yard so the birds can go out there, but I'd like to free range them during the day. Not sure if that's realistic or not. We have one neighborhood cat that spends a lot of time in our yard.
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As long as you can seal that thing so nothing can get in at night it would be ok for a few birds. That carpet will get trashed quickly though. As far as free range birds, it is almost impossible to completely protect them. We have ours in a quite expansive fenced in area, and even then at times things kill them. The only thing I would worry about depending on your location is how close your neighbors are, free range birds without a fenced in area can travel quite a distance.