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    Use Portable Pens and Tunnels to Manage Chicken Manure

    Aug 16, 2019 2 minutes
    — Cheryl Long

    o run chickens in your garden, install long, permanent chicken tunnels along one or more sides of the garden, connected to a coop where the birds sleep. Lay out dedicated garden beds using a standard width so that portable wire pens can be moved from bed to bed. Your chickens will be

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