Small Animals Playpen - Portable Chicken Coop Run Large Chick Brooder 73"x36"x25" with Detachable Bottom, Pop Up Pet Enclosure Cat Tent for Guinea Pig Bunny Puppy Indoor Outdoor (Flat Top)

This small animal playpen is great! Very excited when I opened the package. The storage bag and stakes round out the value of this product. It is a light weight pop up playpen for small animals that are not hyper, or are heavy or run around aggressively. It is not a heavy duty screen room. It’s well made and easy to operate. It folds into itself and twists easily to put it in the storage bag. The zippers are nylon or plastic but work well. The mesh is a fine mesh but sturdy enough for little critters. It’s thicker than garden mesh, so it’s smooth and doesn’t snag easily. But it’s mesh, so use common sense. I removed the bottom for the chicks, and it was easily re-zipped back on. Be aware the corners are like a tent, so best if you can stake them down. If the playpen is on uneven ground, the bottom will have gaps. Again, stake them down. Since we were looking for something easy to put away, not taking up much room, and not too costly, this playpen fit the bill! Very happy with this.

Like many, I chose this unit to be used as a brooder for my newly hatch chicks. I loved how compact it was and easy to store. Setting it up was effortless you literally just open it up and it pops up into the perfect form. For the first week, I use Chuxs instead of bedding, to allow the chicks to get a better grip for walking. The size fit Chuxs perfectly. This is one of the largest units I could find as far as a playpen goes. And I really liked that It was rectangular and not circular, which made it easier for me to access different areas within it. The mesh allows for good air circulation and yet will keep bedding from flying out, which was an issue I hated when using the traditional Brooder cages in the past. Things that I felt the company could improve on with this unit: There are zip over openings on one side, two of them, and on the top of the unit, two of them. The first thing I didn’t like is there’s only one zipper. Many of these playpen type units have a double zipper so you can determine where the opening goes. I found that as a big disadvantage, when I wanted to feed cords in and out. It’s a single zipper, it will always end at the top, and a cord will likely weigh it down. Which means that, as the chicks get older, if there’s an opening wide enough, they could get out. The same issue with the zippers goes to the bottom piece. It looks like a single zipper as well. And again none of them are in the corner so I can’t feed my cords out of a corner like I would want to.. another issue would be to have zippered side windows on both sides not just on one. But all in all, I really like the unit. It gives my chicks a lot of room, and I have nine chicks and one hatching as we speak. I love the fact that the mesh will keep the bedding in the unit and not all over my room. It is really easy to set up and easy to put back into its case. I like the fact that should I choose to, I can unzip the bottom and put the chicks out as they’re older in a grassy area supervised, of course… And allow them to experience foraging in a controlled environment. For the size of this unit, and it’s big, I felt the price was very reasonable.

This is a lightweight, collapsible enclosure that fully zips to keep critters in (or out). I used it to accumulate my young chicks to the outdoor weather in small incrimates prior to them moving full time into their coop. It was nice knowing that they wouldn't be able to run off and that they had access to sunlight, but some protection from larger birds. I like that the bottom comes off. It allowed them to be able to forage for bugs and grass, while remaining safe under the netting

This was perfection with raising my six new chickens. It was in my home until it was warm enough to put the girls on my screened in porch. I cleaned it about every three days and was able to take outside, unzip and wash down the floor with the hose. Fabulous product! The girls felt safe and slept well and secure until they were large enough to live in the outside coop. A tad difficult to put back into the bag to store, but we had some humorous moments so it was all good.

Kept on collapsing I used it for my chickens when they were babies very hard to get inside and grab one of them.