Want to increase your flock of chickens? Buy some fertile eggs and encourage your hens to hatch them.

Buff Orpingtons like Chirp are known for this. They’ve got motherly instincts so strong, they’ll try to hatch golf balls, other hens’ eggs, or literal nothing. Logic doesn’t matter.

Amid national concerns over the price of eggs, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized more than three dozen hatching eggs in Louisville.