Collection: Portable chicken coops
Light enough to reposition in minutes. Built for small yards that change with the season.
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Not sure which one?
Three questions: flock size, yard space, how often you plan to move it.
A portable chicken coop is a coop small enough and light enough that moving it is a one-person job rather than a project. In practice that means a shorter frame, wheels at one end and a handle you can actually reach.
The ones here are sized by their manufacturers for 2 to 8 hens and priced from $419 to $729. Each one lists what its manufacturer states about wheels, handle, weight, clearance and floor, and prints "not published" where they don't, which on assembled weight is most of them.
How to choose one
Work through three things, in this order:
- Length. The 43-inch coop fits down a side gate and along a fence line; the 96.5-inch PawHut does not.
- Wheel diameter. 3.9 inches is fine on mown lawn and hard work on tussocks.
- Handle position. Two wheels at one end with a handle at the other is the layout that gives you leverage. Side handles mean you're lifting.
The filter people get wrong
Capacity. Hen counts in this category tend to be optimistic, so where a manufacturer publishes enough dimensions we show the square-foot arithmetic alongside the rating.
On the PawHut 96.5", for instance, the published run area works out at two to three standard birds. That is the number we give you.
What portable doesn't mean
- It doesn't mean light. None of these manufacturers publishes an assembled weight, so we make no one-person claim on any of them.
- It doesn't mean carry-able.
- It doesn't mean tractor. A portable coop with a solid floor is still a coop on wheels.
Where to go next
- 2–4 hens — start here.
- 4–6 hens — see mobile chicken coops, which is everything that rolls.
- 6–10 hens — see large chicken coops.
- Still deciding? Why move your chicken coop covers what rotation actually does to a backyard.