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It was not unusual to see chickens along the sides of the old dirt roads that led to the family farms. When a car went by, a cloud of dust would follow, and the chickens would do their best to fly away, with feathers floating down everywhere. It was always about five seconds of chaos.
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American roosters go cock-a-doodle-do.
What do Germans hear when a rooster crows?
 Kee-ker-eee-kee!
But as the roads got better and better, and were finally paved; and as the cars driving by went faster and faster; it was finally more prudent to build a chicken coop, and bring the food to the chickens. Ground corn meal is a favorite food for chickens.
A special fencing material called chicken wire with small holes was invented, and it was able to contain not only the chickens, but even the little baby chicks. Wooden nests were built in a shed, and each morning one of the family members was tasked with going out to the shed to fetch the eggs.
Sometimes a chicken would not let you have its eggs, and would peck at your hands as you tried to get them. This might mean that the eggs were fertilized, meaning that the eggs were going to turn into little baby chicks. For days on end the mother chicken would hold herself above the eggs keeping them warm. And every few hours she would turn the eggs a little bit, to make certain that each chick inside would develop properly. And then the eggs would hatch.
There is nothing cuter than a baby chick, except, of course, a dozen baby chicks.
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