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Not just chicken poop

April 29, 2015, Pocomoke City, MD — On an overcast Friday morning, Jason Lambertson goes through one door, then another, and peers across a long, warm, dusky room at the 80,000 teenagers whose poop the state expects him to clean up.

Granted, the teenagers are young chickens, owned and cared for on Millennium Farms for the Tyson Food Co. And as the sulfuric aroma of their waste rises out of the chicken house, Lambertson said he is determined to make the birds’ manure usable on his fields despite new state regulations that limit the practice. READ MORE