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

Keeping chickens is stll extraordinarily popular. Sustainable and fun, it's one of the most interesting and rewarding hobbies you can find. In Chicken DIY, aspiring chicken-keepers 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 colour 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 colour 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.

Samantha Johnson and her brother, Daniel, have collaborated on a number of rural-living guidebooks. Both live on the family farm in far northern Wisconsin, USA. 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.