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Chicken Math Adds Up

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"Chicken Math" is the term jokingly used by chicken keepers to describe the seemingly miraculous process by which one chicken turns into two chickens turns into twenty chickens. Fruit of the Coop is a South Dakota business that is finding ways to make chicken math pay off.

You see the words at the supermarket but what do they mean: Jumbo, Grade A, etc?

When we visited for Dakota Life, Stephanie Peterson of Fruit of the Coop also gave us the low down how farm fresh eggs are sized and graded.