Through a combined ecofeminist, and critical disability philosophical analysis of the commodification of female farmed animal reproduction, the paper conceptualizes ability as a socio-capitalist construct that can carry the potential for harm. Patriarchal farmed animal capitalism relies upon the idea of naturalized ability of farmed females to be hyper-reproductive/hyper-ovulatory/hyper-lactative. This paper frames the introduced condition of hyper-ovulation in “egg” hens, or the amplification of their ability to lay through selective breeding, as reproductive impairment, and an act of violent patriarchal commodification and capitalization of female reproduction. Impairment, then, functions not just as disability, but also as ability. Focusing on our rescued chickens, the paper argues that such intentionally bred hyper-fertility manifests for individual hens in its least harmful form as chronic illness with the likelihood of everyday pain and inflammation, anxiety, and metabolic hunger; and in its most harmful form as a life-threatening condition. It then examines the subversive ecofeminist politics of using contraception for chickens in a fraught attempt to restore a closer pace of avian ovulation cycles that existed prior to their selective breeding. In allowing infertility to be restored to hen bodies, chicken contraception highlights the disappearance of intentionally introduced reproductive impairment to materialize the patriarchal-capitalist ableist construct of hens who naturally ovulate daily. Ideas of normal and natural can also thus operate in the service of ability. Ultimately, the paper positions the infertile hen as central to a fuller feminist resistance to the governance and control of the female reproductive body.

通过对雌性养殖动物繁殖的商品化进行生态女性主义和严重残疾的综合哲学分析，本文将能力概念化为一种可能带来潜在伤害的社会资本主义结构。父权制养殖动物资本主义依赖于养殖雌性具有高繁殖/高排卵/高泌乳能力的自然化能力。本文将“蛋”母鸡过度排卵的情况，或者通过选择性育种增强其产蛋能力的情况，描述为生殖障碍，以及暴力父权商品化和雌性生殖资本化的行为。那么，损伤不仅表现为残疾，而且表现为能力。该论文以我们获救的鸡为对象，认为这种故意饲养的高生育力对个体母鸡来说，其危害最小的形式是慢性疾病，可能会出现日常疼痛和炎症、焦虑和代谢性饥饿；其最有害的形式是危及生命的状况。然后，它审视了颠覆性的生态女权主义政治，即对鸡使用避孕措施，试图恢复选择性繁殖之前存在的鸟类排卵周期的更紧密节奏。通过让母鸡恢复不孕能力，小鸡避孕强调了故意引入的生殖损伤的消失，从而实现了每天自然排卵的父权资本主义的体能主义结构。因此，正常和自然的想法也可以为能力服务。最终，本文将不育母鸡定位为女权主义对女性生殖体治理和控制的更全面抵制的核心。