Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock (Paperback)
From the Back Cover
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 gr (more…)
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Title is totally misleading
Shame on me I didn’t read the reviews. I feel the title is misleading…45 building plans etc. There are no building plans.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Filled with Ideas
This book has lots of neat ideas for building your own chicken coop. I had to arrange housing in a rush for my chickens, due to prior committments, but I will definitely be…
3.0 out of 5 stars
The best laid plans….
More a summary of plans than the details I was looking for. Gave me ideas but would have preferred more hand holding.
3.0 out of 5 stars
No Real Building Plans
I should have read the reviews before purchasing. While this book is cute and has some value and interesting article type stories, it is definitely not what you need if you’re…
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not Worth Purchasing!
I was looking for a publication that had detailed plans for chicken coops so I could choose the one best suited for our needs; This is not the book!
1.0 out of 5 stars
totally misleading title!
If you are looking for some cutsie stories and vague pictures of hen houses and coops built by others, then this may be the book for you.
1.0 out of 5 stars
No real plans
There are no complete building plans, only drawings. No material lists.
If you are good at building stuff from scratch, then MAYBE this would more useful to you…
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not a book of Plans
I too was a little disappointed in this book. It doesn’t actually have plans for the coops. It profiles several different types of coops and there are pics and rough sketches.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Title not correct, but a good book nevertheless.
Other reviewers are correct, the book has no detailed plans, or materials lists. Nonetheless, I found the book to be full of valuable information.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not worth the money
I should have read the reviews…not the item description. These are “ideas” that I could have come up with on my own and saved $20. You can get better ideas on the internet.