George Shirley wrote:
> Becca wrote:
>> bulka wrote:
>>>
>>> Illegal here, though I know a couple of people who have a few. Things
>>> would have to get a lot rougher before I'd be willing to build even a
>>> legal coop.
>>>
>>
>> One of my friends recently graduated from college, and she just built
>> a chicken coop. Maybe young folks are becoming interested in raising
>> chickens?
>>
>> BTW, my mother says having a rooster, makes the chickens lay more
>> eggs. That is sad, because I can not handle the sound of a rooster
>> crowing all the time.
>>
>> Becca
> Hens in those egg factories never even get to meet a rooster and they
> lay an egg a day until they're butchered.


And as we recently learned, the young and exceptionally productive hens
sometimes drop double yolk eggs.