It’s April, and new life is springing up everywhere you look in Iowa. Daffodils, tulips and other flowers are brightening up our yards. Flowering crab apple trees and redbuds are blooming in our parks. And all over Iowa, kids are out riding bicycles and scooters that have been stored away in the garage all winter.

This month in Family Living we have another sure sign of spring: baby chicks.

Hoover’s Hatchery in the north central Iowa town of Rudd supplies baby chicks to farmers and...