chicken coop

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Noun1.chicken coop - a farm building for housing poultrychicken coop - a farm building for housing poultry
farm building - a building on a farm
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Describe the garden and outside space: The one-acre property also has a paddock and a formal garden with a summer house, shed and hen coop.
At age five, she sat in a hen coop to discover "where on a chicken was there an opening big enough for an egg to come out." Tarzan and Dr.
"The Government is putting the Fox in charge of the hen coop when it comes to food safety" - Labour MP Ben Bradshaw on International Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox's role in the US chlorinewashed chicken issue.
Not that I was focused about how I looked all the time, but it is kind of about that" Model turned actress Cara Delevingne "The Government is putting the Fox in charge of the hen coop when it comes to food safety" Labour MP Ben Bradshaw on International Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox's role in the chlorinewashed chicken issue "I've got to have my funeral in the afternoon, curtain up 2.30pm, so people can get to the theatre afterwards" Actress Phyllida Law, below "We are truly devastated to say that, following the most recent MRI scan of Charlie's muscles ...
"I'm becoming a master of diplomacy, as you know, and nothing would induce me to pass any comment whatsoever about the American elections" Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson "Hideously racist" Sports pundit Gary Lineker's description of the public attitude to young migrants in the Jungle camp "You want to be the only cock in the hen coop, on a pure Darwinian level" Host Sue Perkins to a male contestant in The Great British Bake Off "I'm so much happier over the course of the day to see one or two people and a few chickens - that's a good way of living" Comedian Russell Brand, who has moved from London to the countryside
More often than not, it is a fox or wild dogs raiding the hen coop or attacking a herd of sheep.
Thousands of pounds has also been spent renovating a stone hen coop which will become a viewing shelter called the Baker Stonecote.
Former Merseyside fire fighter turned Wirral organic farmer Steve Ledsham says egg-laying levels have shot up by 40% since he installed a CD player in the hen coop.
'But there are those who would argue that it's like inviting a fox into the hen coop. Until everyone is convinced of his sincerity, this is a political gamble.'
She used the rest of the wood from the sycamore for a hen coop in her backyard.
In 1998 they moved with children, Amber, now eight, and Joseph, now four, to the Moray Firth, buying a farm and preparing stockpiled food, a hen coop and vegetable garden.