Covid-19 pandemic causes panic-buying of chicks


Some of the hundreds of chicks at the Hoover Family Farm.

At Family Farms in Davie, Florida, the United States, the weeks leading up to Easter are usually busy, especially at farmer Robert Hoover’s chicken roost.

But not this busy. When shoppers flocked to supermarkets to panic-buy toilet paper and disinfectants, Hoover hardly expected them to make a run for his baby chickens.

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