Michigan Blaze Roasts 250,000 Chickens!

Oh, the humanity!!! So how much is a chicken's life worth? Somewhere in the neighborhood of $20.00, including the value of the building that housed the quarter million egg-laying hens, expectant mothers all, making the loss of life all the more tragic.

--August 10, 2005
Herbruck Poultry Ranch,
Berlin Township, Michigan


Curiously...

Five years ago this month, Headlines in Ohio had this to say,

"Ohio Blaze Roasts 250,000 Chickens!"

"There’s nothing left there," said Chief Bob Frey of the Versailles Fire Department. "They were incinerated."

--August 28, 2000
Weaver Brothers Farm
Versailles, Ohio


Note: Curiouser still, the chickens in this blaze were valued at a mere $2.25 each; no cost of building property is mentioned. So, judging for inflation, the hens lost today were actually somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 or $6.00. How perculiar that 5 years apart 250,000 chickens meet their doom in a similar fashion. Was it aliens? Some government conspiracy to hide a nefarious experiment gone bad? Or is 250,000 just a nice round number? I know it's odd, but it feeds that poultry fetish of mine. For more on this fetish click here.