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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.
Additional Information
ISBN | 9781620082300 |
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Author | Daniel Johnson & Samantha Johnson |
Book Type | Paperback, 192 pages, Full-colour photos and illustrations |
Book Dimensions | 276 x 200mm |
Published | January 2018 |