Welcome to the Chicken Swap

Welcome to the Chicken Swap
Naomi Harris for TIME

Chicken Lover
At the Northeast Chicken Stock, chicken owners gather to trade eggs and buy birds. Among those attending was Jim Mancini, a waiter in Philadelphia with 15 chickens, who traded this bantam Serama rooster he raised for half a dozen chicks. "I can't keep roosters in the city," said Mancini as he reluctantly parted with the bird. "They're too noisy."

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