How to Build Animal Housing: 60 Plans for Coops, Hutches, Barns, Sheds, Pens, Nest Boxes, Feeders, Stanchions, and more

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Happy, Healthy Animals!

That's what people want, and proper housing makes it possible. How to Build Animal Housing helps you evaluate the housing needs of your animals and provides dozens of adaptable plans for sheds, coops, hutches, multi-purpose barns, windbreaks, and shade structures, as well as plans for essential equipment.

Carol Ekarius has your animals' best interests in mind and begins with a careful discussion of animal welfare, behavior, and general safety issues. You'll also get tried-and-true advice on the importance of planning ahead and budgeting adequately. The detailed plans are supplemented with an entire section dedicated to construction techniques.

If you care about your animals and want the very best for them, How to Build Animal Housing is the book for you.

Table of Contents

• Preface
  
  
• PREREQUISITES
  Shelter | Planning | Structure, Design & Function
  
  
• PLANS
  Small & Portable Housing Projects | Windbreaks & Shade Shelters | Barns & Stables | Odds & Ends
  
  
• CONSTRUCTION
  Before You Begin | Basic Construction | Final Steps
  
  
• Plan Credits
• Resources
• Index

About the Author

Carol Ekarius and her husband, Ken Woodard, have farmed for more than 20 years. They have raised (and housed) all kinds of poultry and fowl, rabbits, horses, donkeys, mules, dairy and beef cattle, sheep, and goats.

How to Build Animal Housing: 60 Plans for Coops, Hutches, Barns, Sheds, Pens, Nest Boxes, Feeders, Stanchions, and more