Bantam
Breeder Cages - Here's our own answer to housing
bantam
breeders including photos. A little bit of work, but MUCH cheaper than
commercial cages.
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Poultryhelp.com |
Barn
Pens - Here's how we built the 10ft x 10ft poultry
pens
in our new barn - 7 pages of photos including the roosts and nest boxes.
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Poultryhelp.com |
Nest
Boxes - Here's how we built our nest boxes.
Includes
a parts list and detailed photos of the construction.
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Poultryhelp.com |
Chicken
Roosts - Here's how we built the roosts we use in
our
barn pens. Detailed photos and instructions.
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Poultryhelp.com |
Housing
Baby Chicks - 'Cheep' and Easy to Make Chick Brooders
How to build a
cheep, easy
to make and clean brooder and save over $100 on each one you make
compared
to commercial brooders.
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PoultryHelp.com |
Poultry
Litter - Why not use Cedar Chips?
Pine shavings vs
Cedar
chips
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Poultryhelp.com |
Small
Scale Poultry Housing Considerations
- General Poultry
Housing
Information
- Virginia
Cooperative
Extension |
Small
Scale Poultry Housing Plans
- Detailed Plans
for three
sizes of Poultry Houses: 8ft x 8ft, 20ft x 20 ft, and one for 50-80
birds.
- Virginia
Cooperative
Extension |
Backyard
Chickens
- Detailed plans
and photos
for a 3½ ft x 8ft chicken coop and photos and links to their
coops.
-
backyardchickens.com
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Larry's
Poultry
- Free plans for
poultry
coop and wooden brooder. |
| Chicken
Condo - Plans for a neat 8ft x 14ft Chicken Condo
and
a 4ft x 6ft mobile A-frame pen. |
The
Bantam Roost Small Henhouse - Plans and a list of
materials
for a 4ft x 4ft henhouse. |
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| Mimi's
Chicken House - A cute small 4ft x 4ft henhouse
with
fenced "Fort Barleycorn" around it. |
NFP
Manufactured Housing - Commercially manufactured
poultry
houses in Great Britain - The photos may give you some good ideas. |
| Forsham
Cottage Arks - Very fancy little chicken houses
manufactured
in England. A bit extravagant for most country folks, but
definitely
worth a look! |
Round
Movable Pens - 20ft diameter round movable pens
made
with plastic pipe. From the University of Tennessee. |
Poultry
Housing Tips by Date
HUGE Collection of
Poultry
Housing Tips published in Univ of Georgia Newsletters from 1993-2002
- Univ of Georgia |
Poultry
Housing Tips by Subject
HUGE Collection of
Poultry
Housing Tips published in Univ of Georgia Newsletters from 1993-2002
- Univ of Georgia |
| James
D Satterfield - Efficient 4 foot x 10 foot Chicken
Tractor
built in Canton, GA |
Broiler
House Specifiations
with photos and
links to
PDF files
- Univ of Georgia |
Small
Scale Poultry Keeping: Housing Layers
(Intro, deep-litter
System,
the poultry shed, mice and rats, equipment.)
- NSW (Australia)
Agriculture |
Bobwhite
Quail Brooder House Plans
A set of blueprint
plans
for building a power ventilated quail brooding house for 7,000 chicks
through
six-weeks of age.
(This link is on
MSU's
old website. A corresponding link could not be found on their new site)
- Mississippi State
Univ |
Bobwhite
Quail Grower House Plans
A set of plans for
building
a quail grower house for 8,000 chicks between 7- and 14-weeks of age.
This
plan compliments the plan listed above. (This link is on MSU's old
website.
A corresponding link could not be found on their new site)
- Mississippi State
Univ |
Bobwhite
Quail Flight Pen Plans
A set of diagrams
addresses
the building of a flight pen facility for 1,000 to 1,200 Bobwhite quail
during the flight conditioning phase of their growth. This plan
compliments
both plans listed above. (This link is on MSU's old website. A
corresponding
link could not be found on their new site)
- Mississippi State
Univ |
6-Row
Caged Rabbit House Plans
Cross section,
floor plan
and detail drawings of a single-tier cage house for approximately 100
does
and bucks. Capacity can be doubled or tripled by stacking cages.
(Adaptable
for poultry)
- Mississippi State
Univ
(PDF-77K) |
4-Row
Caged Rabbit House Plans
Cross section,
floor plan
and detail drawings of a smaller version of the previous house.
Approximately
60 does and bucks can be housed. Capacity can be doubled or tripled by
stacking cages.
(adaptable for
poultry)
- Mississippi State
Univ
(PDF-66K) |
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Home
Made Rabbit Cages
Plans for building
two
types of all metal rabbit cages. (adaptable for poultry)
- Mississippi State
Univ
(PDF-371K) |
Poultry
and Rabbit Housing Plans
Several plans for
building
rabbitry/poultry equipment and facilities.
- Mississippi State
Univ |
Chicken
Run 3P
Commercially
available
Portable Poultry Pen. Beautiful, but quite expensive. The
design
may give you some ideas for making your own. |
The
Poultry Pen
Several models of
small
flock poultry houses, aviaries, dog kennels, rabbit and ferret hutches,
etc. manufactured in Great Britain |
General
Purpose Single Story Poultry House
Plans for a
40'x200' poultry
house (can be scaled down).
- British Columbia
Ministry
of Agriculture (PDF-357k) |
Poultry
Buildings and Equipment
General Information
on
saite location, building construction, watering and ventilation
systems,
feed processing and storage for a large scale operation.
- British Columbia
Ministry
of Agriculture (PDF-578K) |
Chicken
House Construction Pointers
- Page Wise, Inc. |
The Eglu
British manufactured chicken house with covered
run. Too cute, and might give you some ideas. |
Jorgen's
Quail Cages
- Swedish Quail
Breeder's
quail cage construction details |
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