I love learning from others, and trying new things out!
While we were getting our new dog, I noticed something. The folks who gave us our dog had assembled a quick and easy temporary animal pen to contain the puppies while people were coming to pick them up. After checking it out, I thought that it might work for us too.
A SIMPLE VIDEO OF THE PROCESS
BASIC IDEA AND CONCEPT
For us, we've got a lot of "untamed" land to tame, which includes removing the current plants and replacing them with some more useful ones. While I could just bulldoze it, using the animals seems like a better option for many reasons. It'll leave the soil undisturbed, give the animals free food, and they will fertilize with manure as they go. If I can just move a temporary pen, it'll take a lot less effort than building a "real pen" where I don't need one to be long-term.
The basic idea for this pen is to take four kennel panels, stand them on end, and clip them together with carabiners. I was really impressed at how well this worked, and think it'll really help us. It took us only four minutes to assemble this, and that's with my six year old and five year old helpers!
For now we've placed a few of our young goats in the pen, and they seem to really be enjoying themselves. Since I wanted to use kennel panels for our poultry pen anyway, it'll be a good use for them for the time being. While they are a bit expensive at about $40 USD each, they should last for a couple decades and save us a lot of effort in the long run.
As always, I'm 
and here's the proof:
proof-of-simple-portable-pen
