Our take: Chicks a popular gift for Easter, but how do you raise them?

Published: Wednesday, April 4 2012 11:04 a.m. MDT

Our take: Chicks are one of the most popular gifts for kids this Easter. But many kids don't know what to do when their chicks become chickens.

WOODS CROSS -- Perhaps kids like chickens because they are the closest living relative to Tyrannosaraus Rex. Or perhaps it's because they're cute, fuzzy and fit in the palm of your hand. Either way, the chicks you may buy for your kids as an Easter gift will certainly grow up to be chickens. What do you do when they grow up?

At the American Farm Store in Woods Cross they sell about a thousand of these chicks every season.

"A lot of people will have them follow them around like they are their dog," said justin Beach, who works at American Farm. But the chickens, of course, lay farm fresh eggs.

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