Why did the chicken cross the road?

Egg-laying chickens, when too old to produce eggs, are euthenized. But what do farmers do with their corpses? Let's see if you can guess:

A) Turn them into sausage

B) Feed them to alligators and pythons

C) Turn them into an alternative fuel source

D) Turn them into compost

If you answered D, you would be correct. But if you answered any of the other answers, you would be very close.

According to an AP article entitled "Zombie Chickens", the no-longer-spring-chicken chickens are most commoonly turned into compost by pouring piles of sawdust onto their CO2-suffocated corpses.

But some chickens not properly euthanized have been seen crawling out of the compost piles, earning them the name "zombie chickens" — and hatching a debate over what else might be done with them and other "spent hens."

Gruesome image.

Personally, I like the idea of using the chickens as feeder fowl for large pet reptiles. I think it's the most complete way to close ff the circle of life. Turning them into sausages or using them as alternative fuel seems simultaneously compelling and boring.

I think it's great that the age-old riddle, 'why did the chicken cross the road' might have a new answer that has something to do with avoiding being buried alive or exacting zombie revenge on unsuspecting human executioners. I can't see making a horror movie derived from the punchline, "to get to the other side."