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Keeping a Clean Coop

Let your girls outside for fresh air.

Ah, the elusive clean chicken coop. It’s difficult to imagine chicken housing and see (and smell) a perfect chicken coop in your mind’s eye. The odors and unsightly droppings are what cause many conflicts for urban chicken-keepers, neighbors of the keepers, or municipalities working to meet the needs of chicken-keepers and residents.

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