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 enlarge | Author: Carol Ekarius
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 15756
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1580175279
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.0831
EAN: 9781580175272
ASIN: 1580175279
Publication Date: May 1, 2004
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 Important details left out. August 7, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a great book for ideas. It falls very short on important details.
This book is about building animal shelters, but none of these plans
have a listing of the parts needed. This is doubly important because
these are complicated plans. I would like to build the rabbit house,
but now I am having to approximate what I need. The author needs to
remember that someone wanting to use this book might live 20 miles away
from the hardware store.
A little bit of everything, not enough details on any specific group of live-stock July 24, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was looking for a book on how to build satisfactory chicken and duck housing. This book has a couple of plans for chicken coops, but not enough to buy the book. Why did I give it four stars then? Because the book is designed to give you building plans for various types of live-stock (pigs, hourses, cows, chickens, goats, rabbits, and others). The book does give you 60 plans like it says it does, but there is never more than 2 and at the most three on any specific animal.
This book does have a lot of good information in it beyond the housing plans. It has minimal spacing for your animals, safety and health of your animals, plus it has lots of good pieces of advice throughout the book that has been picked up over 30 plus years. If your like me and are looking to build housing for a specific type of live stock then this is probably not the best book for you (for chickens I would suggest "Poultry House Construction" by Michael Roberts). However, if your looking to build housing for various breeds of live-stock then this book would be a wise purchase. However, a materials list would have been nice (not enough books give them).
 A little disappointing July 16, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was a bit disappointed to find the plans in this book are USDA plans from the 1970s and were not in my view very creative or innovating or interesting. The rabbit house was just a shed of small cages, aimed at someone raising rabbits for food, I suppose, and not in any way pleasant for the rabbits.
 Great Book June 27, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is one of the best I have seen in detailed diagrams & information on building housing for livestock. We are currently building a 3 sided shelter for our alpacas right now using this book as a reference. The book is chuck full of valuable information we would have never thought of and were glad to know before starting to build. Another great thing about the book is that it has such a wide variety of types of buildings. It is a great book to get you started in providing housing for your animals.
Great Book May 7, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this book very informative and clear, though to 'do it right' will take a lot of work on my part because the plans are very specific and correct, and I'm not a carpenter. (yet) Still, it makes known things one needs to think about before you ever pick up a hammer and that is worth the cost for itself. Cheryl of WindWood
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