 The following year, she doubled to 1,000 chickens. By year three, 10,000. Cecilia's neighbors see her success. They start ordering huge quantities of chicken, and soon this peninsula becomes basically the first major chicken-producing area in the country in its entire history. A simple accident, an errant zero on a purchase order form 100 years ago, was to birth an entire industry. And the story is just nice. It's very cute to think of a farmer's wife receiving too many chickens and just making the best of it.