KEXMY Rural365 Portable Chicken Run – Large Pop-Up Chicken Pen for Small Animals – Outdoor Pet Enclosure Outdoor Rabbit Run

We have a ton of stray dogs in the country so this is great for when I was to let my chickens in the grass. Super easy to use and move. Perfect size for letting chicks experience different areas or even for a few hens. Folds up easy. Zippers are smooth and easy. Convenient and easy to store without taking up a bunch of room

I use this for my teeny tiny 6oz hens when I’m working in the yard & am there to watch over them before taking them back indoors. They love to eat clover & soak up some sun! It lets plenty of sun in, but NO MOSQUITOES! Mosquitoes spread fowl pox, so I know my tiny hens are safe from mosquitoes. This run is so light & practical for moving around the yard & keeping the girls near me that I call it their playpen. Loving the openings on top too! No worry about them running thru a side door if I try to get a hen out. I just reach in from above & never have to worry about escapes. It’s not predator proof, but I’d never leave the girls unattended anyway. It’s escape proof for my serama hens & keeps them free of mosquitoes & is simply the easiest way to move them around the yard for outdoor time while I’m gardening or just watching them play. I had a lot of mixed feeling buying this run, but am SO GLAD I DID! But if anyone thinks they can use this & not stay close & watch over whatever animal is in this run, they’ll risk the animal getting attacked by predator birds, dogs, cats, or raccoons, or something. And if the animal digs under the edge, or is able to tear netting, it’ll escape & could get lost. But for my little chickens it is perfect for them to play in near me while I garden. If I’d gotten something made of metal & wood, it would’ve been heavier & awkward for the way I use this. It truly depends on what you need & how much un-supervised protection you need for your animal. This would also function perfectly for a lettuce patch or something in the garden to keep moths & flying bugs from munching on the food growing inside the net. The top openings are perfect for gardening use like this & net lets enough sun & all the rain in to the plants. I take mine inside w/ me & it folds flat & is easily put away so it’ll last a long, long time. I love the ground anchors that came w/it too. Stands up to wind very well. Net is thin but not wimpy at all. Zippers are good ones. Anchors are strong & perfect size metal stakes that don’t need a hammer. I just step on them. I use a child’s butterfly net to quickly transfer my hens from the run to their kitty carrier for easy trip back indoors. Best little portable “playpen” I could have found for my needs! But keep in mind that 6oz full grown hens are size of kittens & do not dig under the sides or hurt the run materials w/ climbing or chewing & aren’t strong like ferrets or older puppies or kittens. It really depends on how you intend to use this whether it’s right for you, & whether you’ll be there to keep your pet protected from any predator that discovers an animal in the run. It will NOT protect my hens from predators other than mosquitoes! That is my job. But it is absolutely perfect for a playpen for my hens. Works to separate a mama hen & her eggs/chicks from other hens too while still allowing them all to see & know the new babies for future flock integration.

It’s awesome for ducks! Got a fitted sheet for the top based on another persons review and it works great.

We've been using this in conjunction with a prefab coop while we work on building our hens a more permanent structure. We love its portability and size, which gives our chickens space to get up to chicken-sprint speed while also enabling us to move them around the yard. It folds so you can use just half or the whole things. Ours came with the center metal support snapped but it was too much of a hassle to return. and it works well enough regardless.A couple things I'd improve:- a zippered opening on the side for direct attachment to our coop or to an additional one of these.- more rigid structure. While it is "dog-proof", ours has figured out that if she dives into it with her nose, the mesh will give way inward and she can make the chickens scatter. bad dog.

I've been shopping for a portable run so I could introduce new hens to my flock during the cold months inside their winterized coop & run. This seemed ideal because I only plan to use it for a very short period of time and could be collapsed into a compact size and stored on a shelf.Warning: when you remove the run from it's pouch and begin to unfold it, it will "pop up" quickly like a self-inflating rubber raft - it's fast! It also takes patience to figure out how to collapse it back into the compact size so it fits back into it's storage zip bag. Visual instructions are included but are somewhat vague. I worked on it for an hour trying to fold it correctly before my husband came home and was able to (quickly mind you) finish the job for me. LOL!My run is 5' wide x 12' long x 6' high and this run is the exact same size minus the tall height. So it's too big for my original plan. So, I'm revising my plan and will use this in the summer to introduce new birds to the flock outdoors. It will probably be better long term, since the new birds will have expanded outdoor protected space as the free ranging flock and new girls get to know each other.Update: July 1, 2019. This has turned out to be a great investment. I’ve figured out how to collapse it to half it’s size & introduce new hens into my flock & currently using it as a “hospital” while one of my hens recovers, and she can have visitors without contact. I collapse it flat when I don’t need it and it expands in a jiffy. Any doubts I had before are gone. Love it!