Charles Gale was one of those farmers; his son Freddie was tasked with delivering eggs to customers on his bike after school and on weekends. Having grown up in a developing poultry industry, Freddie gravitated to the job of managing “Caribbean Hatcheries” at the Crane, St. Philip in the early 1970s and by 1979, Charles and Freddie had gathered their limited family resources, convinced their bankers to support their idea of starting their hatchery, and “National Hatcheries Limited” was born. Their first year, they averaged under 10,000 chicks per week, but 44 years later, the company – now Gale’s Agro Products Limited – is run by the third generation of the family, Barry Gale, and produces on average 100,000 chicks per week for sale in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean