This is a very helpful book with much to commend it. It offers a variety of ideas for the budding poultry keeper. Perhaps it would be helpful to include some of the anti-fox mechanisms that have been used over the years such as means of preventing a fox entering a hen house by means of a partition inside that the short hen can negotiate but not the long bodied fox. Other than that, I found this book helpful in developing my own ideas for my hen house.