 When I was 10 years old, right about the time my parents split up, I bought a dozen chickens, and we lived in town. As a 10-year-old? How did you buy 12 chickens when you're 10? He had money. Well, there's that. My now stepdad may have played a factor in this. Oh. I think there was a little sabotage involved, but my dad came home from work, and I had a dozen chickens in the house. Oh, and how did that go over? Don't act like you're not impressed.