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A $12 Chicken Sells for $950: “It’s For the Kids, for Their Future,” Says One Buyer


Addie Kilmer hugged her chicken tight, all 12.3 pounds of his fluffy white self, and laid him on the cloth-covered card table in a standing-room-only show ring. “Seventy-five dollars” came the first bid. Ninety, shouted the second. Mere moments later, Millbrook Angus farm owner Ed Kading proffered the winning bid: $950 for Addie’s bird. “I could have gotten that chicken […]

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