Home Made Poultry Appliances What to Make and How to Make It

This special re-print edition of E.T. Smith's book "Poultry Houses, Coops and Equipment" is a guide to the design and construction of housing for chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, gamebirds, pigeons and other domestic birds. Written in 1921, this classic text contains information on how to plan, design and build a wide range of functional poultry houses, ranging from the most simple of coops, on up to fully functioning houses. No starting chicken keeper should be without the knowledge contained in this small book. Chapters include The Amateur Carpenter, The Choice of Materials, The Value of Plans, Making Joints, Laying Out a Poultry Yard, General Principles of Poultry Plant Construction, Various Forms of Poultry Housing, Inside the Poultry House, Poultry Runs, Natural Hatching - Sheds and Appliances, Incubator Houses and Incubators, Brooder Houses and Brooders, Fattening Sheds and Cages, Duck and Duckling Houses, Goose and Turkey Houses and more. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.