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The History of Shipping Chickens by Mail
"I came to chickens because I wanted some eggs in the backyard," she says. "Until I went to get my chicks, I had no idea that anyone was shipping any kind of animals through the mail at all." The first meal a chick gets is its egg yolk and it can stay alive for 24 hours or so. Some people were artificially incubating and hatching chicks and started trying to ship chicks first very short distances then got farther.
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