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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, this delightful collection of hen hideaways will spark your imagination and inspire you to begin building. Author and farmer Judy Pangman combed the country to select these 45 coops 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 ideas 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 conceptual plans, you've got all you need to shelter your flock.
About the Author
Judy Pangman and her husband, Frank Johnson, raise their two sons and grass-fed beef, pork, and eggs on their 200-acre farm in upstate New York. They are committed to sustainable agriculture, raising their animals naturally and cruelty-free and promoting a safe and healthy local food system. .
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock,
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This review is from: Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock (Paperback)
Not worth the money. This is a horrible book with terrible plans. No real effort was put into this. They used anything to make makeshift chicken coops.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
love the ideas,
This review is from: Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock (Paperback)
I love perusing through this book. The ideas it generates are fantastic. Seeing how people have been able to recycle whatever materials they have available makes having a small flock even more affordable. Would like to see more specific details in the plans - materials lists for example and elevations. Also enjoy the personal stories that go with the coops.
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2.4 out of 5 stars (75 customer reviews) 218 of 226 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Fifteen bucks down the drain...,
By Thomas P. Schoenborn "T. Schoenborn" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock (Hardcover)
I'm not usually so critical, but I was utterly disappointed in this book. The title is misleading. The '45 plans' mentioned in the title were not plans at all. They were at best 'general arrangements'. While overall dimensions were given, most 'plans' barely mention materials of construction and certainly didn't include an actual bill of material.Some of the illustrations were little more than crude, badly proportioned hand sketches. I guess I expected more from someone who felt they were qualified to write a book. I would have to guess that this is the authors first book. Apparently the publisher wasn't paying any attention during this project. A synopsis of the book might read "throw some scrap material together and give it a cutsie name...I'll include it in my next book!! 141 of 145 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Dissatified - Misleading Title,
By M. Boettcher - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock (Paperback)
This book is entitled "Chicken Coops- 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock". There were no complete building plans, only drawings with construction "notes". There were no material lists with specs. I cannot build a chicken coop with this book. There are websites listed where I can buy some of the plans - but wouldn't a person expect these plans to be inside a book entitled this way?
45 of 47 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
No plans in this book! Just ideas,
By " Anti Microchip " "Jesus Christ can ... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock (Paperback)
This book would have gotten 5/5 stars from me if it read, "Chicken Coops: 46 Building IDEAS/PICTURES for housing your flock." There are absolutely NO PLANS IN THIS BOOK!!! If your looking for with actual plans in it, try "Poultry House Construction, by Michael Roberts." That book is under a hundred pages and is a wealth of knowledge (with various plans in it). If your looking for great chicken coop IDEAS than this is your book. There are a lot of great ideas in this book, and if your good with planning and tools than this is all you need. As I said if the book supplemented the word Ideas instead of plans I would have given it five starts. This is a great book, it just has a misleading title. Sorry Ms. Pangman I can't give you 5 stars when your book doesn't live up to it's title.
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