Chicken pen

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I turned the big 4-0 last month and my husband made me something very special (which my husband tells me ordinary women would not even want)! Let me take you on a visual tour. This is at the back of my suburban homestead. I am standing right next to the coop. To the left of the coop is the run. For a year this was all the space the chickens had and I knew they needed more room. On top of the run is a new addition...it is my lettuce box. It provides shade for the chickens and protects them…

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We just finished building an intro pen out of PVC today and plan to put it right next to the big coop so the new and old can get accustomed to one another...

all the details on our chicken’s new digs