Chicken DIY: 20 Fun-to-Build Projects for Happy and Healthy Chickens: 20 Fun-To-Make Projects for Happy and Healthy Chickens - Softcover

Johnson, Samantha

 
9781620082300: Chicken DIY: 20 Fun-to-Build Projects for Happy and Healthy Chickens: 20 Fun-To-Make Projects for Happy and Healthy Chickens

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The popularity of egg-laying chickens is on the rise. Sustainable and fun, raising chickens is one of the most interesting and rewarding backyard hobbies you can find. In Chicken DIY, aspiring chicken farmers will find creative plans and easy-to-follow construction tips for making a safe and healthy environment for their fine-feathered friends. Veteran farmers and poultry enthusiasts Samantha and Daniel Johnson provide complete and easy-to-follow instructions for 20 essential projects, from coops and feeders to runs, ramps, roosts, and incubators. Clear step-by-step color photographs guide the reader through each hands-on project.

Inside Chicken DIY

How to prepare and build a safe and healthy environment for your backyard flock

20 hands-on projects for chicken coops, roosts, runs, ramps, feeders, waterers, nest boxes, egg incubators, and more

Clear step-by-step color photographs

Overview of the basic tools and skills needed to complete each project

Complete, thorough, and easy-to-follow instructions

“Why DIY?” section explains the positive benefits and satisfaction of building things yourself

Bonus chapter takes a fascinating look at the history of chicken-keeping and DIY chicken projects through history

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Samantha Johnson (Phelps, Wisconsin) and her brother, Daniel, have collaborated on a number of rural-living guidebooks, including How to Raise Rabbits and Beginner's Guide to Beekeeping. Both are 4-H alumni and live on the family farm, Fox Hill Farm, in far northern Wisconsin. Samantha is a certified horse show judge and raises purebred Welsh Mountain ponies and Dutch, Holland Lop, and Netherland Dwarf rabbits.Daniel Johnson is a professional photographer who specializes in imagery of farm life. He is the author of the 4-H Guide to Digital Photography and the coauthor of The Field Guide to Horses. He lives on a family-owned horse farm in Phelps, Wisconsin, called Fox Hill Farm (www.foxhillphoto.com).

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