GOJOOASIS Outdoor Large Metal Chicken Coop Run, 118in

Two things need saying about this product before anything else, and the listing makes neither of them obvious.

The first is arithmetic: 118 inches by 39.5 inches is 4,661 square inches, or 32.4 square feet, which is eight standard hens. Unusually, the listing claims no bird count at all - there is no inflated number here to correct, and we treat that as a point in the maker's favor. The second matters more: it is a run. There is no enclosed henhouse, no nest box and no roost. Birds still need somewhere draft-free and roofed to spend the night, and that is a separate purchase or an existing coop you build this around.

Read as a run, it is a reasonable product

Judged as what it actually is, the assessment changes. As outdoor space at roughly 8 square feet per standard bird, 32.4 square feet suits about four birds' worth of run - and it arrives with a cover, a galvanized steel frame and a UV and water-resistant top, which solves two problems at once.

• It will not rot. There is no base rail sitting in wet ground, which is how most wooden coops on this site end their lives.
• It gives red mite nowhere to colonize - no cracks, no end grain, no timber joints.
• The cover stops aerial predators, which is the one threat a locked coop does nothing about. See hawks, owls and the daylight problem.
• It keeps the run floor drier, which matters more than it sounds - a wet run gets tracked into the coop on the birds' feet.
• It comes apart and moves rather than being replaced.

The narrow footprint is the real constraint

39.5 inches deep. That is the same depth as the small wooden coops on this site that we criticize for being narrow, and it has the same consequence: the usable area is long rather than broad, and a run you cannot comfortably turn around in is a corridor whatever the category name says.

At 59 inches high as published it is a stoop rather than the crawl an earlier 39-inch version of this run demanded, but it is still under five feet and not a walk-in in the sense the name implies. Compare it against the 4ever2buy 10x13 at 157 by 118 inches and 76.8 inches high, which genuinely is - reviewed here - or the VEVOR, whose spire roof sheds snow rather than collecting it.

The base is the weak point, as on every metal run

The perimeter meets the ground and nothing stops a digger going under it. That is not specific to this product - it is true of every steel run in the category. The fix is a wire apron: half-inch hardware cloth laid flat, extending about 12 inches outward from the perimeter, pinned with landscape staples and eventually grown into the turf. Stopping predators that dig has the method.

What it still needs

1. A henhouse. This is the first purchase, not an optional extra.
2. A ground apron at the perimeter.
3. Half-inch hardware cloth on the lower panels if the supplied mesh is a wider aperture.
4. Cold galvanizing paint on any cut edge or drilled hole from assembly, which is where corrosion starts.
5. A realistic count - seven birds of run space, or fewer if it is their only outdoor area.

The full write-up

Top pick · A metal run that will not rot

GOJOOASIS Outdoor Large Metal Chicken Coop Run, 118in

32.4 sq ft of galvanized steel run, and a maker that publishes no bird count at all - which counts in its favor here.

What the numbers say

Published footprint32.4 sq ftHonest count8 hensMaker claimsno claim

118in x 39.5in = 32.4 sq ft of whole-unit footprint, which includes the attached run and is therefore generous. At 4 sq ft per standard hen that is 8 birds. The maker publishes no bird count of its own to compare against.

Figures from GOJOOASIS published specifications (Amazon listing) · 118"L x 39.5"W x 59"H · Galvanized steel frame with a UV and water-resistant cover

118 by 39.5 inches is 32.4 square feet, which is eight standard hens on the published 4 square feet a bird. The listing states no bird count of its own, so there is no claim here to fail - and on this site that is a point in a maker's favor rather than an omission.

Read the shape rather than the headline area. Thirty-nine inches of width is narrow, so the usable space is a long corridor rather than a yard, and birds use length less efficiently than they use breadth.

At 59 inches high it is a stoop rather than the crawl the older 39-inch version demanded, but it is still under five feet. Call it head-down access rather than walk-in, whatever the category name suggests.

What you are buying is the frame. Galvanized steel does not rot, hosts no mites in its end grain and needs no re-treating, which is the right material for a structure that lives outdoors permanently.

Good

• Publishes no bird count, so there is no inflated claim to correct
• Galvanized steel frame will outlast any fir coop here
• 59in height is a genuine improvement on the older 39in version
• Long enough to give birds real running distance

Not so good

• A run, not a coop - there is no henhouse and roosting is still unsolved
• 39.5in width makes it a corridor rather than a yard
• Still under five feet, so not walk-in in the sense the name implies
• The cover is the weak point and will need replacing before the frame does

Skip this if: you need somewhere for the birds to sleep. This is outdoor space and predator exclusion only - there is no insulated house in it, and the per-bird floor guidance applies to enclosed roosting space you still have to provide.

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Who it is for

Somebody who already owns a henhouse and needs secure, covered outdoor space around it - which is a genuinely common position and an underserved one. It appears on metal coops and runs, coops for 8 chickens and walk-in coops, and on all three it is the answer for a reader who has the roosting problem already solved.