BY FRANK HYMAN
A 42-inch picket fence keeps in hens (even guinea hens) if bolstered by “avian Alcatraz” fencing. Use heavy-duty weed-trimmer line, strung loosely.
Frank Hyman has been a columnist for Hobby Farms and Chickens magazines for several years, so of course someone would eventually ask him to write a book. However, a simple text about keeping chickens doesn’t fit this lively, humorous writer, who has covered chicken-keeping topics as diverse as coop construction and building a worm-bin buffet for his hens. No, he’s not interested in just keeping chickens but establishing a hentopia, which is in the name of his new book: Hentopia: Create a hassle-free habitat for happy chickens. On sale now, it offers 21 innovative projects for chicken keepers of all skill levels.