Building Chicken Coops For Dummies

• Choose your coop's best location, size, and style
• Construct a coop from the ground up
• Add solar power or electricity to your coop

Build a safe enclosure for your backyard flock

Whether you have a small city loft, a suburban backyard, or rural farm, this friendly guide gives you easy-to-follow and customizable plans for building a cost-effective backyard chicken coop. You'll not only be able to construct a safe habitat, but you can also provide creature comforts for your flock, put together a run, and plug in with electricity. You'll get basic construction know-how and key information to design and build a coop that's easy on the eyes and tailored to your flock.

Inside…

• The dirt on essential tools
• The skills to build like a pro
• Tips for prepping a coop site
• Adding walls, doors, windows
• Pointers on building roosts
• Adding electricity to a coop
• Helpful schematic drawings
• Fun ideas to decorate a coop