Chicken Sex
Throughout my childhood and into my early adult years I was blessed with the knowledge that hens lay eggs without the contact of man chickens. This is correct.
My false factual knowledge connected to this was bestowed upon me by one of my parents at a local childrens farm. As part of the tour of the farm, each child was allowed to pick an egg from a chickens nest to take home. As a child I was worried that I might pick an egg with a baby chicken inside and asked my parents how I would know which one to pick. After all I didn't want to kill a little fluffy chick.
I was reliably informed by my parents that if the hens sat on the eggs and kept them warm they would turn into baby chickens, so don't take an egg from a nest with a hen on it.
Naturally I believed this but I started to wonder what cocks (the man chickens) did all day. So I asked my parents. Once again they reliably informed me that they were kept in with the hens to keep them in order and stop them fighting.
This sort of information doesn't come up in conversation very often when you live in the city, but at the age of 22 I annouced to all my new University friends that Chickens don't have sex they lay eggs no matter what. If the hens sit on the eggs they turn into chicks and the cocks are there to keep them in order.
I now know that the eggs have to be fertilised first :)
(Darkbex I have nothing to declare... not even my genius, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 3:53, 10 replies)

I just had to google how it does actually work.
Fascinating.
( Pope Shax XIII uses Visio for picture editing, does it show?, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 4:04, closed)

The hen lay egg and the cock walks about and wanks off on egg
And then baby chikken pop out of egg.
( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 7:26, closed)

That's BS
It's a swarm of bees that does it.
( P-MONKE We're all fucked, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 9:34, closed)

It's only fish and frogs
that can fertilize an egg after it is laid.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 1:36, closed)

Friend of mine
refuses to eat eggs, on the grounds that they are chickens' periods.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 8:16, closed)

Your friend has a very poor understanding of biology

(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 11:04, closed)

Nah, he's quite smart,
but doesn't like eggs. The analogy is sound enough to make most people go "eww" when the first hear it.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 13:26, closed)

I had logged on
to say much the same thing, but you beat me to it.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 1:35, closed)

Not just me then, I was bought up in the country, been around farms most of my childhood but still I never realised that not all eggs would tunr into chicks.
I thought it must be pot luck or something.

Never occurred to me what the cock bird was for.
(polar69, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 9:03, closed)

Cock a
doodle
doo!
"How do you like your eggs in the morning?"
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 24 Jan 2012, 9:48, closed)