Texas is famous for its cattle farms, but another kind of farm is growing much faster: ostrich farms. Not long ago, ostrich farms were rare, but there are now thousands of them in the United States, many of them in Texas. It's easy to see why so
many farmers are interested in these large birds. The price of ostrich meat is many times higher than the price of beef, which makes the birds extremely valuable: A pair of young adult ostriches are worth over $40,000, and an ostrich egg may be worth up to $1,500. Since a female ostrich may lay up to eighty eggs a year,