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A Cheap and Sensible Book

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Any true DIY enthusiast should be able to read diagrams and be familiar with both Imperial and Metric measures. If in doubt about measurements, just pull out a tape rule and learn. I find this a very good book that does exactly what it sets out to do - show you how to build simple poultry houses with the minimum of fuss. It would have been handy to have the total lengths of wood required for each coop stated, but unless you intend to build every one in the book, adding up the bits isn't too big a job. B&Q have packs of wood with the dimensions in both Metric and Imperial, but Wickes are much cheaper, and timber yards cheapest and most likely to have the exact sizes you want.

A good design book.	Customer Rating:
This book takes a modicum of intelligence to get the best from it. It is not a collection of 'how to' plans but more a treatise of coop design with good examples. To convert 1" to millimetres multiply by 25.4 and if the reader can't work out the floor space divided by the required space for each hen from figures given, then he/she has bought the wrong book.

great book concept very poorly executed

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There are many faults such as very poor drawings, no assembly instructions (just panels)+ its completely in imperial with a photograph of a tape measure cut into strips as a coversion chart! However the biggest issue is the houses themselves, the small transport, broody etc boxes look good but the house plans are poor and this is meant to be a poultry house construction book. The ark plans give no idea of how many birds they are for and early in the book the author criticises the generic ark design as wasteful of materials versus usable cubic capacity but doesn't provide an alternative design. Waste of money unless you like puzzles and even then I don't have the confidence in the plans to start

The Perfect gift for your handyperson

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This book was given originally by Santa Claus to my handyperson and as a result I have a well built spacious hen house that is simplicity itself to maintain. the author gives detailed drawings and instructions for several house designs from the smallest to his 'poultry palace'. it is written in a quirky original style by someone obviously experienced with both housing and the birds themselves. I am buying a second copy for another handyperson

Poultry House Construction (Gold Cockerel S.)	Customer Rating:
I have completed one of his previous constructions and found that I needed to re-draw his plans just so I could read them. However dispite this fault his ideas worked. But, the biggest let down for me was, particulary in the bigger designs, is no wood list. It takes forever to add all the measurements of the timber required up.