Re: Black sex links--Stupid?

From: Ray Drouillard (cosmicpam2_at_comcast.net)
Date: 11/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:41:00 -0500

"Deb" <dmschwinn@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1100359832.726075.321990@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> Thankfully, I have never heard of this coloring process over here.
But
> the schools are ignorant enough though, to purchase fertilized eggs
and
> hatch them in class. Then each child gets to take a baby chick home.
> I have been contacted every year by our local schools for such eggs.
> Each year I say no. I will not subject any chick to such horrible
> treatment. Most of these families have no idea what to do with a
chick
> or chicken. Somehow yet, they continue to find the eggs to repeat the
> process. You can always tell when the chicks have been sent home,
give
> it a month or so and those who where not mauled to death end up being
> road kill or some animal's meal, as there are feathers in the road, on
> front lawns, etc.
>
> It's an appauling practice.

One chick per person? Someone needs to tell them that chickens are
flock animals.

Ray Drouillard

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