Building Chicken Coops for Dummies

By: Todd Brock, Dave Zook, Rob Ludlow

Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen

Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins

Publisher's summary

As the popularity of urban homesteading and sustainable living increases, it's no wonder you're in need of trusted, practical guidance on how to properly house the chickens you're planning (or have already begun) to keep. Building Chicken Coops for Dummies gives you the information you need to build the most cost-efficient, safe, and easy-on-the-eye enclosures for your backyard flock.

This practical guide gives you easy-to-follow and customizable plans for building the backyard chicken coop that works best for you. You'll get the basic construction know-how and key information you need to design and build a coop tailored to your flock, whether you live in a small city loft, a suburban backyard, or a small rural farm.

• Step-by-step guidance on how to build a coop - or design your own
• Accessible for every level of listener

©2019 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (P)2020 Tantor

Comprehensive down to the basics

This book is definitely very basic, and covers everything from which end of a hammer to hold all the way through the framing walls. some areas from more helpful than others but it's easy to fast forward and the contents are clearly documented she can jump to wherever makes sense.

Better than expected...

At first you wonder: a) how will they do an audio edition of a book so hea I'll dependent on pictures and diagrams (I own the hardcopy too,) and b) is the author's voice going to stay stoned and monotone.

The answers are: a) they do a pretty good job of explaining things in a way that at least I (someone with prior building and carpentry experience) can understand (although better when referencing the diagrams of pics in the hardcopy or Kindle editions of the book,) and b) the narrator does eventually develop some inflection in his voice. it's not the material that's boring - it's just he's trying to make points of certain topics, and therefore ends up well pacing his read.

overall good book. The less experience you have with tools and carpentry, the more I suggest purchasing the Kindle or hardcopy editions for visual reference to the audio guide.