Chicken Coops : 45 Building Ideas For Housing Your Flock

Bring your chickens home to roos in comfort and style! Whetehr you’re keeping on hen in a small backyard or 1,000 birds in a large free-range pasture, this delightful collection of hen hideways will spark your imagination and inspire you to begin building. Author and farmer Judy Pangman combed the country to select these 45 coops for houseing both laying hens and meat birds (chicken or turkeys). The coops range from fashionable backyard structures featured in the anuual Seattle Tilth City Chickenc Tour and hte Mad City Chickens Tour in Madison, Wisconsin, to the large-scale, moveable shelters Joel Salatin has fashioned for Polyface Farm in Virginia.You’ll find ideas for converting trailer frames, greenhouses, and backyard hseds; low-budget alternatives for working with found and recycled materials; and simple ways to make waters, 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 conceptual plans and how-to-drawings, you’ve got all you need to shelter your flock.