chickens

[dan no1]

how do chickens form perfectly oval shaped eggs?

[Skids]

By not having the slightest notion that they are.

[shammydodger]

What is a perfect oval?

[n00dles]

Where they play Cricket???

[BillyBB]

Would you want to lay a square egg?

[baileys]

ouch!!!!!!!

[ugly_bob]

Their no oval though, they're egg-shaped

[Skids]

They're asymmetrical ovoid shaped.

[Catso]

It's a skill they're just born with.

[SuperSan]

i don't know for sure, but..

i think it's the way their insides are shaped and the egg moulds into this shape until it is ready to come out.

[Geo1000]

The egg is kept in motion which probably helps iron out any irregularities. This motion is what causes some eggs to have squiggly lines on it. Small ducts exude an 'ink' and as the egg moves around the lines are drawn.

[Narolines]

I was going to suggest they use a lay-the.......

[doglady]

I don't know how, but I do know why. It's the strongest shape ever!! If you try and crush a raw egg in your bare hand, you can't do it. Even if you put it in a carrier bag so you aren't psychologically stopping yourself, you can't crush it with one hand.

[nickmo]

One of a few sites with some info: http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/eggs/res17-layeggs.html illustration here and good text here: http://www.omlet.co.uk/guide/guide.php?view=Chickens&cat=Eggs

Should keep you happy. And the egg came before the chicken, in case you wondered.

[Sphinx_Svens]

Geo1000...


So the lion is drawn on before it's laid? .... coool