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Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock

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Bring your chickens home to roost in comfort and style! Whether you're keeping one hen in a small backyard or 1,000 hens in a large free-range pasture, you will find the perfect housing plan in this comprehensive handbook.

Author and farmer Judy Pangman combed the country to select these 45 plans for housing both laying hens and meat birds (chickens or turkeys). The coops range from fashionable backyard structures featured in the annual Seattle Tilth City Chickens Tour and the Mad City Chickens Tour in Madison, Wisconsin, to the large-scale, moveable structures Joel Salatin has fashioned for Polyface Farm in Virginia.

You'll also find plans for converting trailer frames, greenhouses, and backyard sheds; low-budget alternatives for working with found and recycled materials; and simple ways to make waterers, feeders, and nestboxes. A gallery of color photographs provides other creative ideas to get you going. With basic building skills, a little elbow grease, and this book of plans, you've got all you need to shelter your flock.

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Product Details

Author:	Judy Pangman
Paperback:	166 pages
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication Date:	July 01, 2006
Language:	English
ISBN:	1580176275
Package Length:	10.8 inches
Package Width:	8.3 inches
Package Height:	0.5 inches
Package Weight:	0.75 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 55 reviews

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ISBN13: 9781580176279
Condition: New
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Chicken Coups 45 building plans for housing your flock Aug 17, 2010
This book is a complete waste of money! There are NO PLANS in this book. It does contain line drawings of one or two sides of the coops, and a floor diagram of each coop. If you are looking for some general ideas for your own coop, then this would be an excellent book-but that isn't what I wanted nor what the book's title stated. I should have read the reviews before I purchased this book, rather than after.

Not for anyone serious about raising chickens Aug 13, 2010
I bought this book to look for bona fide plans for building a new chicken coop. I have had chickens a long time and have built several coops. I wanted to avoid the mistakes I made before.

This book is very nicely illustrated but is like the worst of Mother Earth News -"Make a City Water Treatment Facility From Used Cereal Boxes." If you are high and live on a commune this is the book for you. It is not for anyone with a small farm who wants to build a chicken coop that is easy to maintain and clean, will last, and is safe for chickens.

Nice detail Aug 02, 2010
This book has lots of black and white photos and details, it can surely give you some good ideas. It also has some color photos at the end. If you want some ideas for a chicken coop and are handy with a hammer and nail then you will like this book.

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Not a DIY Book Jul 23, 2010
Not a good book at all. Say 45 plans but does not say how they lack detail. Waste of my money. Found a free plan online that was step by step start to finish. As far as I am concerned this book is a waste of money. You can get a better book at Home Depot of less money.

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A great book! Jul 06, 2010
This book was more than what I expected. It had a lot of different types and great instructions. I would recommend this book.