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Here is yet another old house. This one on Minnie and Veryl's old place (sisters).....about 1/2 mile from where I grew up. Once part of an old estate property. Have had these photos for some time, but failed to post them. Just a plain Jane midwest chicken house. I would envision problems with...

Bump...... Wonder if it might be time to bring this up again? I continue to see questions from builders asking about "how to do this" and "how to do that". Most admit to knowing practically nothing about raising birds or how to build a chicken house and are winging it blind. No...

Clerestory? OK, I had to look that one up. So what some call a "clerestory", others (like me) have been calling "half monitor"? Yes, a "clerestory" or half monitor, but NOT a Woods open air style. A lot of windows down low, not as many windows up high, and not the open air concept of the Woods...

More historic coops.......... I work in rural areas, so get to see things others might miss. One thing I've begun to document is some of these old historic coops......the ones that are still standing; Here are two examples: First is a modified shed style......... This one had a concrete...

Of course no such list would be complete without a reference to the Fresh Air Poultry Houses and the Woods coop: http://www.nortoncreekpress.com/wordpress/poultry/fresh_air_poultry_houses_a/ Kudos to Robert P who is a BYC member and the modern era publisher. Also available online...

Plans list from North Dakota State. Kudos to NDSU for keeping these active and available. https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/extension-aben/buildingplans/poultry These are a collection of older style chicken houses dating back to the 30's, 40's and 50's. A lot of these are getting bigger than what most...

Yes......a lot of good stuff in there and not all of it entirely about the houses. A lot of it relates to poultry management. An example is the part about fencing off the chicken yard from the main house and how no farm wife need to be confronted with the chickens setting up their home base at...

Here is a link to another one: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/29768#/summary Google search for this one is: (there are different editions and sources) Poultry Houses and Fixtures by Reliable Poultry Journal Pub. Co, Quincy, IL ************ This has many of the same...

BTW, after looking at many of these older designs, I built a Woods Colony house. It is one of those referenced in the material above. The author of the book referenced above was a contemporary of Woods. Woods mentioned him and his work at the MO Experimental Research farm. So that would be the...

I notice I tend to make a lot of references to "historic chicken houses" in my replies. The reason is that a lot of questions we all have about how to go about building a chicken house, what matters and what doesn't, was all worked out well over 100 years ago. What we seem determined to do is...