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| | Cook County News-Herald - Grand Marais, Minnesota |
 | | And although cleaning the coop is one of the most gratifying aspects of keeping chickens, I do like to keep about three feet of distance between my body and what’s on the end of my rake and shovel. |
 | | The rest are brown-egg-laying hens in a variety of colors: Barred Rocks, Silver Laced Wyandottes, White Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, Buff Orpington hens, plus the Johnson’s Auracana, “Blackie.” As many of them as there are, they are happy in their work. |
 | | E.B. White, co-author of “Elements of Style,” and a chicken keeper of some note, said “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. |
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