Laura Upham develop up with chicken and ducks as part of her daily life . Helping her beginner tend the house flocks is one of the many memories she cherish from her childhood in rural Michigan . It ’s also a rootage of regret for her : Upham now lives in Chicago , and a city apartment does not allow her three daughters the chance to collect fresh eggs or arise the mother wit of duty that care for animals allow . And then came Barbie .
Chicken Farmer Barbie , that is . In her bright cerise droppings boots and her springy Love Farm T - shirt , she is quick for a Clarence Day ofcollecting and pack eggsand keep track of her hens and babe chick . Barbie can let her shuttle out via a Allium tricoccum so she can clean the hencoop . She can even carry a crybaby or her egg - collection basketful .
Part of the Barbie Careers doll phone line byMattel Inc. , Chicken Farmer Barbie encourages girl to care for their birds and “ imagine everything she can become . ” Barbie ’s agricultural adventures transcend volaille - holding . Future apiculturist can enjoy Barbie Beekeeper . Her playset includes a modernbeehivewith bees that spin , a honeycomb that kids can slue in and out , flowers with stopple - and - play slot that appropriate “ pollination , ” a computer monitor and two honey bears . The apiculturist version mutant proper garb , too , right down to her protective jacket and veiled bee lid . Mattel Inc.
For nipper undecided about an agrarian specialty , there ’s the Barbie Farmer doll , with a red plaid shirt , brown muck boots , and hen . Another option is Barbie and her Tractor , sport a gated paddy wagon , five farm animals , a hay bale and a nursing bottle . There ’s even Barbie Farm Vet ( should we call her Dr. Roberts ? ) , whose playset include seven animals , a barn clinic , obliterable cast , a feeding bottle and a stethoscope .
Having get up in the era where my option were limited mostly to Malibu Barbie and her Malibu coterie , I am thrilled to see Mattel ask its most recognized spokesperson and having her explore an ever - widening sort of occupational theater of operations . Upham the Chicago urbanite feels the same way .
“ I believe that , because it ’s Barbie doing these unlike chore , girls see that these jobs are perfectly normal for female child to do . They too can be farmer or veteran or beekeeper , ” she noted . “ I had anERTLfarm set as a kid but I was unique among my friends because every girl had dolls . Now they can have husbandry dolls . ”
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Upham design to buy the Beekeeper and Chicken Farmer sets — available at Target , Wal - Mart , KMart and Amazon — for her daughters for Easter . My fry are sadly beyond the age of Barbie but , just in case , I might have texted the Mattel linkup for the Farm Vet to my Word Michael . Every good vet - school pupil should have a Farm Vet Barbie — and maybe , just maybe , he ’ll get Chicken Farmer Barbie for me for Mother ’s Day .
