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Old 02-25-2006, 02:47 AM  
Elli
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Well logically most females of reproducing age should be able to reproduce. However:

a farm only needs a few token males to keep things happy, so their chicken population might be 99% egg-layers.
and since females too old to produce are immediately killed, then the only other sector of non-laying domestic chicken population is the young females.

bah. Why did I bother?
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