CHICKENS DON'T NEED ROOSTERS TO MAKE AN INDUSTRY.
For the two weeks before Easter, Morning Fresh Farms' sales of eggs grocery-store chains are about 50 percent higher than normal.
The Platteville egg farm usually ships about 15,000 eggs per week, 60 percent to the grocery industry. So, where do they get all the extra eggs?
"We see a spike in pricing at Easter, too," Thorpe said. "It's not unusual to see prices go up 25 percent or 30 percent."
Eggs, however, are not just a seasonal industry in Colorado.
There is an egg-laying chicken in Colorado for every man, woman and child in the state, according to Steve Bornmann, egg program administrator for the Colorado Department of Agriculture.
"The chicken population pretty much follows right along with the human population," said Bornmann. "It's done that for years. We have about 4 million people, so we have about 4 million laying chickens."
We asked Bornmann how many roosters there are for 4 million hens, and he said everybody asks that question.
"you wouldn't believe me if I told you," he said. Then, after a long pause, he answered, "None."
Chickens don't need roosters to produce eggs, only to fertilize them. And mass-production facilities don't sell fertilized eggs.
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