Get great ideas from free design plans and building details for useful small farm buildings: farm stands, smoke houses, chicken coops and much more.

Photo: Library of Congress, Historical American Buildings Survey

Bumper Gate Design
Want to drive your tractor or pickup into your pasture without stopping to open a gate. Here's a clever design from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Purple Martin Birdhouse

Roadside Farm Stand
An attractive and practical 6'x12' portable sales booth with a sheltering roof overhang and sales counters that hinge up to close up shop when not in use.

Roadside Sales Stand
12'x24' Permanent sales booth with a sheltered front counter and built-in display racks.

Smoke House Design
Design, details and material lists for building a 6'x8' homestead smoke house with wood or concrete block.

Wooden Smoke House
A simple design for a 6'x8' home smoke house with a free-standing fire box.

Poultry Coop
6'x8' Shed-roof design to be built on skids.

Shed Roof Poultry Coop
Permanent 18'x30' building

Hen House
20'x20' Poultry Barn with Straw Loft

Portable Poultry House
8'x12' Coop for 25 hens.

More Poultry and Small Animal Shelters
 

About These Cooperative Extension Plans:  These plans were developed over many years by engineers at U.S. Land Grant universities. They are generally older plans that need to be revised for today's construction methods, codes and standards. They provide design ideas and conceptual information for planning purposes. The plans were prepared through the USDA Cooperative Farm Buildings Plan Exchange.

Buildings must resist various forces from snow, wind, earthquake and use. They also must adhere to local building and zoning codes. A local building inspector, engineer, building supplier, or building contractor can help you determine what is a safe and legal building for your area.