Chicken Run

Backyard Poultry

Moveable Poultry Pen

This is our first chicken run. It was designed to be portable, predator-proof, and economical. Two-by-fours, scrap wood supports, and one-inch chicken wire did make a cheap four-by-eight-foot pen. No raccoons have ever even approached the thing. The catch is the “portable” part—it takes two strong people on each end to move it! Not being wiser, we hauled it around anyway. We’d take the chicks out to fresh grass every warm day and sometimes even move them while in the run!