Employees supported themselves as best they could, using the wards as pigsties and chicken coops.
Opposite his corral are some of the 15 chicken coops the Gettles have built and filled with heirloom birds.
Existing homes, which include resold single-family homes, condos, coops and townhomes, were 9.1% higher than a year ago.
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Mr Rylands said if he moved the coops behind some nearby barns he would moving the animals "towards another neighbour".
To be fair, many of those comparables are condos, a housing stock that typically garners slightly higher prices per square foot than coops.
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Babysitting coops transform childcare from a one-to-one transaction to a many-to-many transaction, making it easy for families to find and coordinate the highest-quality care.
But that's like polling foxes on which chicken coops they prefer.
Supermodel Cindy Crawford shucked corn and even shirtless wonder Matthew McConaughey had to clean a few chicken coops before he landed his dream gig in Hollywood.
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He wants the next generation to think manufacturing is cool, so he invests in coops and interns, providing housing (all they need is gas and food money).
Babysitting coops are groups of families who trade childcare with each other, and SittingAround is the website we built to make it easy to run babysitting coops.
"The fox is guarding the henhouse, " says Karen Hudson, president of Families Against Rural Messes, an Elmwood, Ill. group that does battle with industrial-size pigsties and chicken coops.
Across the region, Pakistani officers spend their days teaching local residents where to set up rudimentary fish farms, how to manage chicken coops, and even take what it takes to become successful beekeepers.
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She keeps five chickens in two custom-built coops.
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When a Florida developer cut down all the trees around what used to be a baseball field and started putting up condos -- "more of those damned chicken coops, " says Rick Kelley, Loon Mountain's general manager -- the town said, Enough.
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