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Fresh Air or Bust! To stay healthy, your chickens need plenty of ventilation—probably more than they’re getting today. This was discovered over 100 years ago, but has been largely forgotten. Today’s small-flock housing tends to be dank, dark, and smelly. Chickens, like miners’ canaries, are easily harmed by poor air quality. Wet litter breeds disease. Darkness forces chickens, like parrots, to be artificially inactive. “Dank, dark, and smelly” is a deadly combination! Closed chicken houses are so harmful that knocking out a wall can cause an immediate improvement, even in winter. Chickens, after all, have a thick coat of feathers to keep them warm, but are vulnerable to poor air quality and pathogens in the litter; and their unwillingness to eat in the dark means they can starve in the midst of plenty. Fresh-Air Poultry Houses was written by Dr. Prince T. Woods, a noted poultry health expert. Dr. Woods describes not only his own poultry houses, but those of many of his clients, giving the book a breadth of experience that makes it a unique resource. This 1924 book is old-fashioned and a little eccentric, but in a good way. Fresh-Air Poultry Houses is a good example of the Norton Creek Press motto: “Most of the best books are out of print and forgotten, but we can fix that!” See our Web site at http://www.nortoncreekpress.com
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37 of 39 people found the following review helpful
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Fresh Air Poultry Houses, Jan 11 2009
By Valued Customer "Bridgid P N H" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Fresh-Air Poultry Houses: The Classic Guide to Open-Front Chicken Coops for Healthier Poultry (Paperback)
This guide was written when the family farm was the rule rather than the exception and therefore is full of useful information written in plain english for prospective or experienced aviculturists.I was able to narrow down my choices for an appropriate coop design and avoid some pitfalls that used to be common knowledge.
This book is clear and precise in describing the requirements and techniques for safe and healthy poultry husbandry from backyard coops to much larger commercial operations.
27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
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Re-"freshing"!, Nov 23 2008
By Lisa Jordan - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Fresh-Air Poultry Houses: The Classic Guide to Open-Front Chicken Coops for Healthier Poultry (Paperback)
Thanks to Norton Creek Press for re-printing another wise, but out-of-print book!What an eye opener, especially when it comes to winter flock management in cold, snowy, harsh climates like ours!
This book will change our winter management style--and make it a lot simpler. Our chickens will be more comfortable and healthy, and we'll have a lot less work to do!
Highly recommended for those who keep chickens for pleasure, as well as profit.
27 of 30 people found the following review helpful
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lots of Ideas, May 5 2009
By L.E. - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Fresh-Air Poultry Houses: The Classic Guide to Open-Front Chicken Coops for Healthier Poultry (Paperback)
This book is chalked full of ideas, about building open front building. It contians several diagrams and "blue Prints". It presents a lot of good ideas. The only draw back is that the drawings don't have all the imformation for building. The imformation is in the book, just not all in one spot, some of it is on the picture, some of it in the text or on the caption below the picture. That just means that you have to do a little digging around the book to find out what you want to know. Over all the book was worth the money to me.
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