I wasn't raised on a farm, but my dgm and dgp lived on a farm outside of town. We got peeps (real baby chicks back then) for Easter, and we would raise them for about a week then they went to the farm so they could fatten up.
One day they would be gone, and we were sometimes told that they were lost to another animal. Then we had chicken for dinner!
4-H projects for my dd's was my initiation to farming. We had goats (nubians); chickens (barred rocks); and rabbits.
Thanks for bringing back some fun memories.:)