The opening of a new egg hatch at St. Columbidae’s has recently reignited controversy around the practice. The hatch, which is also called an eggbox or hatchling wheel, allows gravid mothers to anonymously lay their egg into a soft warm nest. The egg can be reclaimed for up to 8 days, after which it is anonymously adopted.
Critics of the egg hatch claim that it encourages brood parasitism and promiscuity. “These young birds are having too much sex,” complained one member of the public, “and an egg is divinely ordained punishment for that promiscuous behavior. When you take away the punishment, there is no purpose–only pleasure.” Asked if young male birds should also suffer for promiscuousness, they replied “Of course not. Those boys are just sowing their wild oats. It’s not fair to make them support an egg at that young age.”
Egg hatch supporters insist that it will actually cut down on brood parasitism deaths, in which young cuckoos eject and murder their foster siblings or young cowbirds attempt to out-compete and starve them. By allowing them to lay into an egg hatch, supporters say, is a safe way for brood parasites to reproduce. “With an egg hatch,” said one supportive member of the public said, “no one has to die, and chickless families can safely adopt young cuckoos and cowbirds without the stigma of brood parasitism.”
Opponents remain unconvinced by these arguments. “Good is good, and everything He does is planned,” said one online commenter. “Promiscuous birds must suffer retribution, and the baby birds murdered by their foster siblings are going to a better place.”
At press time, the office of the governor was considering an executive order to preemptively ban egg hatches. “Not enough native birds are being born, and invasive birds are plotting to replace them,” he said in a statement. “Only by imposing the full, crippling, punishment of egg brooding on unwary mothers can we reverse this troubling trend and make sure that more of the right kinds of birds are born.”
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