Egstrogen Farms is fictional company that advertises transgenic chicken eggs to women who wish to ovulate more frequently. Inspired by subRosa's Cultures of Eugenics (2009) and research into the similarities between women and chickens as egg producers for hegemonic labor forces, and the field of avian transgenic technologies (ATT) which aims to produce pharmaceutical drugs in the whites of eggs, the project imagines a confluence between agricultural and pharmaceutical industries to market a product towards women, targeting theirreproductive capacities. The transgenic chickens lay “Egstro Eggs” containing a cocktail of gonadotropins which would allow women to ovulate as frequently as chickens do. This novel effect would be especially helpful to women who are trying to get pregnant and start a nuclear family, or who are working as egg donors for the assisted reproductive technology (ART) industry. The commercial’s tag line states, “One egg a day is the fertility way.” Although the field of ATT is yet to reach the consumer market, it is an area where one can speculate what an egg can mean in a utilitarian sense for a corporate industry, and how the egg might exist symbolically and culturally once it leaves the laboratory and into the public.





THE MOVIE CHICKEN TEAM
PRODUCER & ANIMATOR: Benjamin Berman
DRONE VIDEOGRAPHY: Christian von Stackelberg
ACTRESS & SCRIPT EDITOR: Melinda Green
ACTOR: David Nicholson

Location and chickens generously provided by 
Chick Chalet Chicken Rentals by David and Carolyn



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