The principle on HN is intellectual curiosity. Almost any discussion can gratify that if it's sufficiently uncorrelated with other topics.

(Edit: but this one is already a bit correlated with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31059524)

(Edit 2: also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31058636. Is this Chicken Day?)

Nonetheless, I’m glad they did ask. Learning a lot about chickens now.

+1 thanks to OP for asking the question. Having a lot of fun reading through the responses