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I turn my head as the chicken flaps, splashing soapy water all over me. By this point, the water is barely an annoyance, as my shirt has been soaked from the very first chicken I washed that afternoon. Once the chicken is calmer, I readjust my grasp on her, and dunk her into the rinse water, swishing her from side to side, before standing up and wrapping her in a towel to groom her nails. This is the scene the day before county fair. I spend the afternoon washing 15 chickens so that they are well groomed, softer, and more attractive to potential buyers. County fair is my own personal Black Friday. It is the week, after 31 weeks breaking even, that I begin making money with my egg and chicken business. The origins of my egg business can …show more content…

The next time my parents went to the grocery store, I tagged along, and studied the typical prices for normal eggs, for brown eggs (which are nutritionally exactly the same as white eggs and are only more sought after as healthy eggs because they look more like small farm eggs), and for organic eggs. By this point, I am smarter than Kindergarten me, and I know that chickens, like their eggs, come in all colors, not just yellow. The eggs I have for sale range from pure white eggs, to speckled brown, to earthy green. I box up my first colorful dozen, walk two houses down the street, knock on the door, and ask my neighbor if he wants to buy eggs. I return to the house with $3, and my egg business is …show more content…

A family with two young girls come in, interested in buying some hens. I show them around the small animal barn, pointing out my chickens that are for sale. “This is a Leghorn. They are great layers and lay huge white eggs, like the kind that you get at the grocery store. This is an Americana. They lay green, blue, or pink eggs. And this is my Cochin. She’s my sweetest chicken.” I stop at this cage and pull the fluffy chicken out so that the girls can pet her. One girl reaches out and touches her back, before hiding behind her father’s leg again. The other strokes her a few times and comments on the

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