In spring, chickens start laying again, bringing a welcome source of protein at winter's end.
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A taste for meat is actually behind the change: an important part of its corn is used to feed chickens, pigs, and cattle.
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He said the chickens had never missed a meal and he could not figure out why some of them had stopped laying eggs.
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I told him that they would be his own chickens and we would buy the eggs from him.
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Then I asked him if he had cut down the amount of feed he had given the chickens.
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When my son gene was about 12 years old, I started helping him learn to work, I bought twenty chickens and asked him to take care of them.
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You can fool everyone else, but you cannot "fool the chickens," because in the end, you will find out, as the saying goes, "What goes around comes around."
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