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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | 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 45 reviews |
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| | Features | ISBN13: 9781580176279Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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 These are not Plans Feb 10, 2010
The title is "45 building plans for housing your flock".....NOT even close. All it contains is poorly drawn pictures of useless coops. I am sorry a stack of hay bales is not a building plan for chickens. I have never written a review for anything but I was so disappointed with this book I am returning it and I don't want anyone else to make my mistake. If I could give it lower than 1 star I would.
Great ideas Jan 25, 2010
There are no plans in this book. It does show many great ideas and pictures.
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 Great plans for basic chicken coops of all kinds and sizes Sep 16, 2009
I have read a number of reviews about this book, many of which complained this book didn't have x, y, or z to show the how to, the materials used, the measurements or whatever on the plans that were contained in this book. This is simply nonsense!
All that is required for a person to use this book is to look at the pictures, select the plan or plans you want to use, figure out whatever materials you choose to use, look at the measurements supplied or make your own calculations, based on the number of chckens you plan to have and the variety (either Bantams or full sized), together with your particular yard space.
I found this book to be full of terrific ideas, specific information about raising chickens and chicks, watering, feeding, drawings and measurements of a large variety of all manner of chicken coops, the materials used to build them, as well as those for turkeys and brooders for raising baby chicks with the hen. There are even photos in color of the various finished chicken houses, suppliers for coops and supplies, with addresses and website addresses, regular addresses, phone numbers, plus a list of helpful government sources, chicken related websites and related books for readings. Anyone who couldn't use this book to build a chicken coop either has no creativity, no building skills or just doesn't know how to read. They also aren't ready to raise chickens!
Over all, it is a terrific book. I live within the city limits of Raleigh, NC and I will be using plans from this book to build my coop! Basic common sense, a few skills in measuring and cutting, use of simple tools, both regular and power, are all that is required, and of course using your common sense to select a choice of materials. I will even make some changes to the plans and combine the best parts of several different plans to make my own particular design....no big deal! You see, I'm an artist so I'm accustomed to being creative.
Anyway, the book is great and the author has done a real service to the growing number of people who are going back to basics. You can do this!
Pay no attention to those nay sayers. If you can read and comprehend directions, read simple basic plans, use a tape measure, a pencil, a saw, a drill, screw driver, screws, nails, hammer, plyers, etc, you can do this. It's that simple. Thanks for the great help! City Chick Arts in Raleigh, NC Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock
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Great resource! Jul 14, 2009
This book about chicken coops provides everything you need to create your own style of coop for your own needs. It has city coops, urban coops, coops for 2 - 5 chickens and coops for a thousand. I enjoyed the focus on using recycled materials to create the coops and the well written summary for each design. We live on a farm and I found it just as useful if not more useful than the traditional coop building books . . .
 OK for Basic Info, Not OK for Building Plans Jul 12, 2009
This book does not contain good construction drawings with dimensions. They are badly drawn hand sketches and some pictures. This book is OK in regard to information about perches, nest boxes, relative capacities, etc. There is good information about raising chickens in this book, but to include "building plans" in the title is misleading.
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