Chicken-coop designs are as varied as the people who keep chickens. The best design for you depends on how many chickens you keep, your purpose in keeping them, their breed, your geographic location, and how much money you want to spend.

This e-handbook shows you designs and helpful tips to make your chicken raising experience a successful one. Chapters include:

• Twelve Tips for a Successful Coop Design
• Providing Adequate Ventilation
• Temperature Control
• Choosing the Right Flooring
• Putting Down Bedding
• Installing Roosts
• Nests and Nest Boxes
• Choosing and Siting a Water Source
• Tips and Advice for Keeping Chickens in Cages
• Offering Access to a Yard
• Raising Chickens Free on the Range

The more adequate their shelter and surroundings, the healthier and more content your chickens will be.

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Building a horse barn is quite a project — and there is a vast and varied array of plans and books available to help you. But renovating a shelter to make it fit for just one or two horses, or building a sturdy three-sided shelter, can be quite simple, even if you have only basic carpentry skills.

This e-handbook shows you what you need to know to properly construct horse housing. Chapters included are:

• The Fundamentals of Building for Horses
• Tips and Techniques for Remodeling
• Building a Simple Run-in Shelter
• Designing the Layout for a Small Barn Renovation
• Roofing Your Horse Barn
• Building a Stall
• Providing Food and Water in the Barn
• Finishes to Preserve Your Horse Shelter

Horses are adaptable creatures, but they are also large, strong, active, and playful. Having a sturdy shelter for them can give you peace of mind.

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Properly housed and fed domestic rabbits can provide you with delicious, high-quality meat with little expenditure of time, space, or money. Rabbits are small and quiet, and they can be kept essentially odorfree with the proper approach to their housing and care.

This e-handbook explains what you need to build and outfit a small noncommercial rabbitry and how to do it. Chapters include:

• The All-Wire Hutch
• Two Approaches in Hutch Building
• Self-Feeders
• Watering Devices
• Nest Boxes
• Useful Tools and Equipment

Raising rabbits will be a satisfying venture with the help of this handy resource. 34 pages.

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If you are in the market for a horse, there are many things for you to consider before you make the final decision on which horse you take home.

This e-handbook helps you become familiar with all aspects of choosing and buying a horse, what criteria to look for in buying a horse and what steps you need to take in selling one. 33 pages.

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When was the last time you tasted a really fresh egg? Most commercially produced eggs spend time in storage and become stale. There’s a big difference, too, between poultry raised commercially and raised at home. Commercial eating birds live out their brief spans in totally artificial surroundings, but home-grown chickens can result in better flavor and firmer texture.

With the help of this e-handbook, you can have eggs and poultry with a flavor — and at a cost — to be found in no supermarket. Chapters include:

• Chicken Breeds
• Brooding and Early Care
• Henhouse Furniture
• Feeders
• Producing Your Own Feed

A handy reference for anyone who wants to raise chickens for meat and eggs. 30 pages.

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Horses are big, strong, playful, and smart, so finding a way to keep them safe and secure in their pastures and paddocks can be a real challenge. Building strong, safe fencing that is also economical and long lasting is an even bigger task.

Experienced do-it-yourselfers and even handy beginners can build great fences for their horses and this e-handbook shows you how. Chapters include:

• Fencing Tools
• Choosing the Right Fence Posts
• Stringing Wire Fencing
• Post-and-Rail and Post-and-Plank Fences
• Fencing Small and Large Pastures
• Fencing the Small Pastures
• Training Pens

With this handy reference you can built fences that are strong, safe, and economical. 35 pages.

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As the authority on rural know-how, Grit magazine has long been leading the charge and is now proud to introduce its 2011 special Guide to Backyard Chickens E-book.
From the rooftop terraces of New York City to the sprawling lawns of rural America, the backyard chicken movement has taken hold and is making a massive impact among city dwellers and country folk alike.
At 100 full-color pages, this one-of-a-kind reference book is designed to arm you with all the information needed to enjoy the simple country pleasures of farm-fresh eggs and poultry, straight from your own backyard.

Grit's 2011 Guide to Backyard Chickens E-book includes an extensive collection of relevant articles, including:

• 23 Delicious Recipes
• Easy Chick Brooder Plans
• Incubate Eggs with Success
• Build Your Own Poultry Plucker
• Control Pests in Your Backyard
• Raise Turkeys, Guineas and Ducks
• And So Much More!

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