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| some tips to help you build your very own portable | | | | portable chicken coop is to add wheels to one end |
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| build one. | | | | move the coop around easily, and at the same time |
| Portable chicken coop can offer you a lot of benefits. | | | | you don’t need to worry about it moving by |
| By making the coop and its attached run portable, | | | | itself when you want it to stay stationary. |
| you can basically use them to keep your whole | | | | One common problem with portable coops is that |
| garden trimmed. Another benefit of using portable | | | | they can be harder to make predator-proof. This is |
| coops is that it can help you keep your expenses on | | | | true for the chicken run part of the coop, because |
| feeding the chickens lower. Since greens are a natural | | | | unlike with stationary coops you cannot make the |
| part of your chickens’ diet, you don’t need | | | | bottom of it “predator-proof” using ceramic |
| to buy anymore as much foods for them. Instead, | | | | tile. That is hard to implement and would defeat the |
| you can supplement a grain diet with the grasses in | | | | purpose of having the coop be portable in the first |
| your backyard that a movable chicken run will allow | | | | place. To solve this, you can add wire mesh |
| your chickens to eat. | | | | underneath the run. This will stop predators from |
| In building your chicken coop, you should follow the | | | | getting in, but your chickens can still be able to eat |
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