Chicken coops plans

Hi, I’m Judy Pangman, author of Chicken Coops. I want to thank Thomas P. Schoenborn and M. Boettcher for reading my book and posting reviews on Amazon.com. In response to their comments, we are correcting the description of the book to make it clear that the building plans in the book do require some construction knowledge on the part of the reader.

I wanted to clarify what the book is and what it is not. If you are looking for a design manual, this is not the right book for you. The book is a compilation of 45 real chicken coops, most of which were built by hand by their owners. Yes, many of the coops were thrown together (albeit carefully planned beforehand) with scrap materials. That was the most interesting discovery I made while writing the book!

From all across the country, coop owners that I encountered were proud that their designs were individualized and built with recycled or salvaged materials. This soon became the book’s central theme. It also made it difficult to provide formal construction drawings and material lists. Almost every coop featured in the book was customized to that owner’s needs, whether it was according to the size of the salvaged wagon bed, truck chassis, or manure spreader on which it was built, or the size of the backyard or the width of the garden gate. The publisher and I decided that the most useful way to present the coops was by providing a floor plan, front and side elevations with dimensions, and as much information in the text as possible about features of the coop and materials used. This way, the reader could choose the type of coop and favored features he or she wanted and, with some construction knowledge, build a customized coop specific to his or her needs and site.

If you are looking for lots of chicken coop ideas, unique coop features, and a lighthearted look at backyard and pastured poultry coops and their very interesting owners, then this is the right book for you.

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