Heather Weick, center, sits with her rabbit, her dog and her family in her Salina home. Partner Andrew Weick, left, holds the ...

Tractor Supply Co. CEO Hal Lawton said recently high egg prices brought a wave of first-time chick buyers to his stores.

There were chickens, hens, roosters and more yardbirds cackling and cock-a-doodle-doing all across the Tractor Supply Company ... "We're what you call backyard chicken farmers," Rick Lipham ...