It was supposed to be a fun, hands-on display for kids at the Erin Fall Fair and a chance for them to hold newly-hatched chicks and learn about farm life.

But just as the fair was getting underway on the Thanksgiving weekend, those 32 chicks disappeared.

Organizers say it's believed the chicks were stolen from their warming box, known as brooder, sometime between 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 10.

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Mayor of Erin, Michael Dehn, was at the fair when the chicks went missing from the Agri-dome. He says he and the chicks owners, Gary and Eileen Brown, had stepped away for the fair’s opening ceremony. When they returned, the lid had been taken off the top of the brooder and the chicks were gone.

He says he believes that someone was

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