How could this happen? An egg chirpping?!


Question: I went to boil an egg that had been in my refridgerator for 2 days and when I put it in the warm water to boil I could hear chirpping from the egg. There was a live chicken in my pot! It had lived in the fridge here and at the grocery store for a while too. How did this happen? Has this ever happened to anyone?


Answers: I went to boil an egg that had been in my refridgerator for 2 days and when I put it in the warm water to boil I could hear chirpping from the egg. There was a live chicken in my pot! It had lived in the fridge here and at the grocery store for a while too. How did this happen? Has this ever happened to anyone?

The chirpping was most likely from air leaking from a fine crack in the egg shell cause by the hot water increasing the air pressure inside the egg.
A fetal chick would have been dead a long time before it got into the pot of water.

You should report it to the store that you bought the eggs from.
Poor thing, that is really gross too. It has never happened to me (Thank god!) but if it did i think that i would be slightly shocked!

Wow, go play the lottery! The odds of that happening are amazing. There are so many steps in processing the eggs that are supposed to prevent that from happening. And I wouldn't even thing it would be possible to live through the refrigeration. That thing might lay golden eggs, you should keep it, and probably call the Guinness Book of World Records for most amazing Chicken. Likely if you tell anyone this, they will think you are crazy. Just a warning.

Unless you actually saw a live chick, I seriously doubt that you experienced one. Many as the pressure builds inside the egg when the water starts to boil it will make odd sounds due to heat and expansion.....

I had this happen before but there was no chick, I do not see how a chick could have survived the refrigeration process, not just your fridge but they are kept cool in storage, there is no way a chick could survive that. It was more than likely just air leaking from the shell, it's impossible to have a live chick from an egg that has been refrigerated.

The chick would have died long before you got the egg. They require constant warmth to develop and survive. The sound you heard was most likely air escaping from the air pocket inside the egg.





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