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Quote: rxwine

They used to sell big open wooden boxes of live "peeps" otherwise known as chicks. All that peeping. They may still do that in smaller country towns during Easter.
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A number of stores do. Many local rural feed & seed dealers, Tractor Supply, Rural King... etc. I see the signs out front, "We have chicks".

As far as I know, Easter just often happens to coincide with when the agriculturists find it useful to get young chicks for the upcoming growing season. (The large commercial operations raise new flocks year round, in spite of the seasons.)