Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock

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1 out of 5 stars

Fifteen bucks down the drain... August 2, 2006
92 out of 94 found this review helpful

I'm not usually so critical, but I was utterly disappointed in this book. The title is misleading. The '45 plans' mentioned in the title were not plans at all. They were at best 'general arrangements'. While overall dimensions were given, most 'plans' barely mention materials of construction and certainly didn't include an actual bill of material.
Some of the illustrations were little more than crude, badly proportioned hand sketches.
I guess I expected more from someone who felt they were qualified to write a book. I would have to guess that this is the authors first book. Apparently the publisher wasn't paying any attention during this project.
A synopsis of the book might read "throw some scrap material together and give it a cutsie name...I'll include it in my next book!!

1 out of 5 stars

Dissatified - Misleading Title July 29, 2006
61 out of 63 found this review helpful

This book is entitled "Chicken Coops- 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock". There were no complete building plans, only drawings with construction "notes". There were no material lists with specs. I cannot build a chicken coop with this book. There are websites listed where I can buy some of the plans - but wouldn't a person expect these plans to be inside a book entitled this way?

5 out of 5 stars

Comment from Author November 15, 2006
28 out of 30 found this review helpful

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.

2 out of 5 stars

Coffee table chicken coop book April 22, 2007
12 out of 13 found this review helpful

I was aware that there were no building plans (based on other reviews), but I wasn't too worried because of I can make materials lists pretty easily from drawings. However, I was surprised that the drawings in this book have incorrect measurements (rather frustrating). This is a coffee table book, and even as that, it's not so exciting. There were really only a few designs that broke away from the square-box chicken coop idea. The best thing about this book is the presentation of the idea of keeping chickens as being an urban middle-class phenomenon. It was good for ideas, but it's not a keeper.

1 out of 5 stars

Disappointed October 30, 2006
11 out of 13 found this review helpful

I was hoping for a book that had actual plans and dimensional drawings of various coops. Instead, this book is more of an "ideas" book or a grand tour of various coops that people have built. Definitely a disappointment.

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