Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock
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...
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Build the Perfect Housing to Fit Your Flock Bring your chickens home to roost in comfort and style! Whether you're keeping one hen in a small backyard or 1,000 birds 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 shelters 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 and how-to drawings, you've got all you need to shelter your flock.
Part 1 Providing Shelter: The BasicsChick Brooders 1 Brooder Basics 2 Feed and Water 3 Temperature 4 Ventilation . 4 Predator Protection 4 Chicken Coops 5 Feed and Water 5 Ventilation 6 Roosts 6 Nest Boxes 6 Predator Protection 6 Things to Consider When Designing Your Coop 7 Part 2 Coops for the CitySetting Hen Hut 10 San Miguel Coop 12 Bo & Friends Coop 16 Cézanne’s Garden Coop 19 Sun Coop 23 Megan’s Coop 27 Cottonwood School Coop 30 Oakhurst Community Garden Coop 33 Cordwood Chicken House 36 Little Red Henhouse 40 Seattle Tilth City Chicken Tour 43 Hi-Rise Coop 44 Poulet Chalet 47 The Cat House 51 Shake Your Tail Feathers Coop 55 Toolshed Henhouse 57 Starclucks Coop 61 Kids’ Garden Coop 65 Chicks ’n the ’Hood Coop 68 Mad City Chickens Tour 69Part 3 Coops for Small FarmsTruck Cap Coop 74 Egg-loo 76 Beck-Chenoweth Broiler Skid 78 Caretaker Farm 80 Chicken Prairie Schooner 81 Sap Bush Hollow Farm 84 Sap Bush Broiler & Turkey Hoop 85 Sap Bush Turkey Roost 88 Sap Bush Chicken RV 90 Sap Bush Eggmobile 92 Sap Bush Brooder House 95 Our Farm CSA 98 Our Farm Broiler Pen 99 Soup Coop 101 A-Frame Henhouse 103 Chicken Greenhouse 105 Shiloh Farm and Retreat 108 Shiloh Mini Hen Retreat. 109 Shiloh Hen Retreat. 112 Shiloh Broiler Retreat. 116 Cotton Trailer Coop. 118 Sweet Tree Farm 122 Sweet Tree Birthday Coop 123 Coop de Grass 126 Winter Coop 129 Polyface Farm 133 Salatin Turkey Coop 134 Salatin Portable Broiler Pen. 136 Salatin Eggmobile 138 Salatin Raken House 141 Salatin Chick Brooder 144 Winter Laying-Hen Hoop House 146 Salatin Feathernet System. 148Part 4 Cool CoopsSelected Coops 151 Inspiring Coops 156
