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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY AUG. 21 - In this Aug. 1, 2016 photo, Dennis Fett pets his bird Buddy in the barn of his farm near Minden, Iowa. Iowa leads the nation in egg production with roughly 50 million hens that lay nearly one in every five eggs consumed in the United States — nearly 12.5 billion eggs in 2015. There's another side to Iowa's poultry industry — a much smaller side — represented by a handful of farmers catering in exotic birds. (Zach Boyden Holmes/The Des Moines Register via AP) MAGS OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT
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