Welcome to the Chicken Swap

Welcome to the Chicken Swap
Naomi Harris for TIME

Good Deal
Mancini shows off the six chicks he got in exchange for one of his bantam roosters. Membership in Backyardchicken.com — whose slogan is "a chicken in every yard" — has grown from 50 in 2007 to more than 60,000 today.

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