Forty five coops, drawn. Not photographed from a distance and left to your imagination: Judy Pangman gives you how-to drawings and conceptual plans, elevations and framing, so you can see what holds the thing up before you buy timber. The range is deliberately wide, from strictly practical to flights of fancy, because the person building a coop for four hens and the person housing a laying flock are not looking for the same building.

Hoop houses, A-frames, converted sheds, mobile units and pastured poultry models are all here, including the Salatin raken house and a children's garden coop. Color photographs show the finished builds, and the anecdotes running alongside profile the people who put them up and the shortcuts and mistakes they made getting there. Pangman raises grass-fed beef, pork and eggs on a two hundred acre farm in upstate New York, so the practicality is not theoretical.

A 176 page Storey trade paperback in a large format that stays open on a workbench.