The Allen's: Just another typical day ...

Having recently moved to Louisiana, I continue to learn about all the wonderful things that make Louisiana unique. Growing up in Texas, the whole "transportation of livestock" thing has always been acceptable to me. Whenever non-Texans mentioned to me how weird they thought it was to look over, while traveling on the interstate, and find themselves staring at a horse's or cow's rear-end, I never comprehended why that would be "weird". For me, watching livestock being transported from here to there was not abnormal, rather it was totally the norm. That was, until I moved to Louisiana and realized that transportation of any livestock is just not normal. I learned quickly that their livestock comes in much smaller forms and is a little bit funnier to see on the highway for some reason ...

While driving to work the other morning I glanced up only to see approximately 1000 chickens being transported to who knows where (cough, cough Tyson Farms, cough). The reason I know there were over 1000 chickens on this 18-wheeler is because I had enough time to "work the numbers" (to use a Grayson phrase) as I drove past flying feathers and other "chicken waste" on my way to work. If you take the 10 crates high and multiply that by approximately 9 chickens per crate and then multiply that by the 12 rows of chickens, you should come out with similar figures.