Housing for Chickens

Portable pens make keeping chickens easier and less messy or smelly.  The manure is spread around for just a day or two, and then the pen is moved so that your fowl can eat the bugs and fertilize the next patch of lawn or pasture.  Pens are usually light-weight for easy moving, may or may not have wheels, and are made from a wide variety of materials.  We provide links to descriptions and photos of many that you can buy or build yourself:

• A Chicken Tractor  Photos, diagrams, dimensions and instructions included.
  

• Chicken Houses and Coops for the Garden  A site in the UK that sells a variety of small, portable hen houses.
  

• Greener Pastures Henhouse  A portable hen house on skids that is moved from pasture to pasture.
  

• Greener Pastures Ark  A portable "ark" or "chicken tractor" that is bottom-less, easy to move and beautiful to look at.
  

• Henhouses.co.uk  Henhouse with integral run for sale in the UK.  Photos, dimensions and detailed description.
  

• HenHut  Very basic portable chicken tractor for sale in the USA.  Photo and description.
  

• HenSpa  Many different portable backyard coops for sale.  Lots of photos.
  

• Learning to Drive a Chicken Tractor  Photos and inspiration from Andy Lee's book; Chicken Tractor.  A very simple and basic design from Georgia State University.
  

• Moveable Pen for Fowl  Moveable pen that protects from predators.  From The University of Tennessee at Martin.
  

• Poulet Chalet  While not a moveable pen, this small hen house is an attractive design.  Step by step photos.
  

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