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Default Chicken Prices Are Rising, Thanks to One Breed of Rooster

On 7/9/2014 4:24 PM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
> Apparently, fat roosters aren't very good at making chicks.

(snippage)
> A team of scientists from Aviagen studied the issue and found
> that the breed's genetics made it sensitive to being overfed, and when
> the bird got big, he didn't breed as much.
>

In other words, when the rooster gets fat he's too lazy to have sex.

Jill <ducking and running>