Does the plant owner have any leftover ballot boxes that, by any chance, were being stored on premises?

But seriously, raising chickens isn't too hard. It requires that you live outside a city though, because city folk hate country things apparently, and rather put themselves in cages instead. You need decent feed supply and an initial outlay of work and/or funds to build or buy a coop and a run. They can be entertaining as well, and easy care for kids to cut their teeth on. Fertilizer for gardens, combined with ashes from your fire pit.