I guess I am the only one with a macabre sense of humor; the comments about the story were halirious! While I hate to hear of mass extermination of one's livelyhood, and I feel sorry for the chickens squashed by the falling building and snow, the comments were still funny. Most of us here have small coops and we care tenderly for our birds so that they become almost members of the family. Commercial operations are seen as cold and unfeeling. Maybe they don't tuck their babies in at night, but you can bet the commercial farmers care about the welfare of their flocks as much as we do, just in a different way. Those birds are their living and a loss like that is staggering. I don't foresee my 2 hens even approaching the level of sustaining my living. If my girls were to die suddenly, I would greive, then go get some more. I also find it humorous that the picture posted with the story is of a red naked neck, not a commercial chicken. Some reporter is a real dufus.
