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Building a chicken coop from scratch

December 16, 2015January 19, 2016 Eva 1 Comment Hen-spiration
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TL;DR : We built our chicken coop from scratch using material we “scavenged” from our carpenter roomate and from pallets from the nearest supermarket. Ok, this was one of our biggest challenges. Chickens need a place to sleep, to lay […]

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