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Sort of a funny story/sort of a chicken question:

Years ago, when I was student teaching 1st grade, I read a
book to the kids about a chicken who wasn't laying eggs, so
her owners got her a friend and then she laid eggs.

Not being much of a chicken person, I wasn't sure what this
meant. I wasn't sure if they meant the friend had to be a
rooster -- it didn't look like a rooster in the
illustration. And since I know that chickens lay
unfertilizerd eggs all the time, I didn't really think a
rooster was necessary for egg laying and I wondered if
maybe it was just supposed to be a companionship thing.

Anyway, I intended to sort of gloss over it all when one
well-informed little girl let everyone know that it HAD to
be a rooster because you had to be married to get babies.
Then another little girl piped up saying that couldn't be
true, since her aunt had just had a baby and she wasn't
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Chad Elduke /blockquote>

On 4/18/03, tj wrote:
> Sort of a funny story/sort of a chicken question:
>
> Years ago, when I was student teaching 1st grade, I read a
> book to the kids about a chicken who wasn't laying eggs, so
> her owners got her a friend and then she laid eggs.
>
> Not being much of a ...See More
May 26, 2003


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