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Joanne Green, chief accountant at a university, packs up ducklings and chickens for the ride home. The best part of the event, says Green, aside from the new lavender silkies she just hatched from eggs she got at the event, was putting faces to the names of people she regularly talks to online at Backyardchicken.com.

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