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An Egg Under the Pillow will Hatch for no Man


There’s something that has crossed my mind multiple times when cooking a fry up.
Can an egg bought from the supermarket hatch into a chicken?
As a child, I was told by my older brother that it would, as long as I kept the egg under my pillow at night- a sort of makeshift incubator if you like.
You can imagine how that ended- more sticky sheets than cheeping chicks.
But to back to the point.
In south Korea, a heatwave has created just the right circumstances for an egg to hatch- without a mother hen or brooder lamp to egg it on. The balmy weather did all the work.
It’s a rather unusual occurrence.
Specially since the egg was sitting in a carton on a South Korean balcony.
Experts say for an egg to develop normally, it must be exposed for a considerable length of time to temperatures a few degrees below 40 degrees Celsius.
Like many regions in Korea, Gangneung, the chick bearing region, has been gripped by a heat wave, that has created just the right climate for chickens.
It’s had day time highs reaching 35 degrees Celsius for most of the last two weeks. 
The heat has caused a lot of strange occurences, and a fair few tragic ones too.
But a chick hatching when it was doomed to be dinner is perhaps the most heart-warming of them all.
Egg-sellent.
Now, all of you chicks and hens out there will be raring to get back to the news- and you don’t have to wait long.

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