Sorting the Eggs...

After they gather the eggs at the big chicken farms, they are taken to the processing plant where they are culled according to sex. They do this because they gain weight at different rates. It takes a trained person to be able to tell one from the other, and even these trained people make a mistake every once in awhile. That's why after they hatch these eggs and send them back to the chicken houses to raise, you will find 10,000 hens and a few roosters, or 10,000 roosters and a few hens. But what about a third house? A house for the roosters and hens that, even though they have all the makings of a rooster or hen, they 'feel' they are the other sex. There are some. Roosters steal a nest from a hen and sit on the eggs, and hens mount other hens just as a rooster does. What about having a place for these chickens, a place where they can live until their day is up? ....Why? Because they don't want a special place. They want to be able to be themselves with all the other chickens, without being singled out for being different.

Stephanie