Down here, actually about 30 miles south of here, there are rooster breeders
as well.  To tell the truth, it didn't even occur to me to think of the more
lucrative uses for them.

Lee

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From: "Mike Wallace" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] OT - And you thought you had problems


> On 6 Mar 2002, at 13:29, David Hale wrote:
>
> > A rooster auction is definitely humorous! That's an
> > interesting bit of history you found out, and I am
> > left wondering how many roosters = one drawbridge.
>
> Definitely humorous but roosters are STILL making very large $$ in
> 'bama. There's a guy about two miles east of my office that raises
> roosters and only roosters. Every few months he travels to Mexico
> and takes along quite a few of these handsome looking critters with
> him. He comes back home with considerably more dollars than he
> left with and no roosters. Has a really nice house and a lot of land,
> thanks to his investments in those particular barnyard critters.
>
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> Mike Wallace
> Wilson Lumber Company, Inc.
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