[Lewjam]

Just saw this and thought it was an interesting storey!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/17769677

[ANHBUC]

Well I never!   

[SnooziSuzi]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/17769677

very odd 

[helens-hens]

It is odd. Something must have gone wrong for the egg to remain inside. I am glad the chick is OK but it must have been very unpleasant for the hen (who died) when the chick pecked its way out of the shell inside 

Thanks for posting it though.

[Diddy Gardener]

Oh Helen, I didn't hear that bit... I guess they just reported on the good news piece. Poor hen. 

Edited to add: I just heard it on the radio, hadn't read the news article.

[Kate and her Ducks]

Well this is the kind of quirk that is evolution! In this case the mother died but it is easy to imagine that if it had survived who knows if it is the beginning of a new species!

[ANHBUC]

Well this is the kind of quirk that is evolution! In this case the mother died but it is easy to imagine that if it had survived who knows if it is the beginning of a new species!

Would they become mammals then?!!   

[SnooziSuzi]

Would they become mammals then?!!   

no, because a mammal produces milk

[ANHBUC]

Would they become mammals then?!!   

no, because a mammal produces milk

Thought there was more to it than live babies.   

[Kate and her Ducks]

But if the chicken had a defective preen gland that produced watery, oily stuff that the chick then discovered it could drink for nourishment...