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Fully Enclosed Chicken Pen is Needed to Keep Out Predators
This article was updated on 27 Apr 2015 When I first built our chicken enclosure/pen I had to compromise quite a lot because of the number of large gum trees in the way. This meant, I couldn’t build a conventional rectangle or box enclosure without cutting down a heap of trees and I wasn’t prepared