egg

BEHOLD.....the chicken egg..

Have you ever wondered about chicken eggs? That hard boiled egg that you eat in the morning, or the bulls eye egg which comes with your nasi lemak??

mmmmmmm..nasi lemakk..

What IS the chicken egg?that is the question that has bothered me for quite some time, and wednesday's Molecular cell bio lesson on Animal Form made me more curious than ever.

We basically learnt that the egg contains an embryo, a developing chick..

this would have been usefull in BIO119 prac...

YUX!

BUt......Why when we open the egg inside no embryo LEH!??

No disgusting looking half-developed corpse of an unborn chicken....

ewwwwwwwwwww

all you see is the egg white and the egg yolk.....

So, me and my*ahem* super intelligent lab partner VIVIAN TAN...

made a few hypothesis...

My Hypothesis:

Hen's lay eggs regardless of being fertilized(fucked) by the Cock or not,That is to say that the hen does not need to have sperm fertilize its ovum to produce an egg, just that the egg comes out naturally as part of the hen's life cycle.However, sperm plus ovum do produce fertillized eggs which would eventually hatch into chicks, and the eggs which are not fertillized are the ones we eat..so basically, there are TWO kinds of eggs produced by chickens.

it doesnt work like this...but wht the hell, a funny pic nonetheless

Her Hypothesis:

To get the egg, the Cock must mate with the hen, sperm+ovum=fertillized egg.

The hen lays the eggs and the farmer collects them. There is no developing embryo within the egg we eat coz the farmers already terminate the embryo developing process using "chemicals" HAHA!!! =.=' AISEHmen..scientific betul dia ni! hahahaha!!!!

in short, vivian suggested only one kind of egg, a fertile one resulting from sperm and ovum whose embryo stage would artificially terminated, in order for consumers to eat..

and i suggested two kinds of eggs, one fertile, and one non fertile( inside no embryo, boleh dimakan kasi goreng atau rebus)

to explain diagramatically, the chickens must carry out the following steps before producing eggs:

WARNING.BULLSHIT SECTION(has no scientific basis whtsoever)

1.

first, the excited couple reads this important piece of literature...for family planning purposes. HAHA! No apologies, no regrets.Remember, Abstinence is the best!, Boys and Girls..no no to pre-maritial sex. hahaha!!
2.

After both parties give their consensus, and maturely weigh the risks involved in sexual reproduction(condom bocor,menstrual cycle timing not cun or shooting too damn fast..excited maaaaa) they can proceed*marvin gaye's lets get it on starts playing*

3.

u know i know lah wht happens next.. getting it on..

this is a hypothesis which she added bcoz she disagreed with mine..

question:

IF the hen can lay eggs without being fucked, then how come some eggs can develop into chicks leh?!? I thought egg and sperm have to fuse with each other to produce chicks?

suggested hypothesis:

after the egg come out frm the hen, the Cockerel masturbates and spray its sperm on the eggs. Those tht kena spray will hatch as chicks LOR! EAsy as ABC!Those tht tak kena, we eat for breakfast lah!!!

I aspire to be an established medical researcher one day, and Vivian wants to be a crime scene investigator..evidently we still have a long way to go...

*BULLSHIT SECTION ENDS*

thanks to vivian, i got hold of the answer in google answers and it says:

"Hens begin laying at 18 – 20 weeks of age and a healthy chicken will lay about one egg a day. A hen does not need a rooster to lay eggs and eggs are produced in response to day light patterns. The eggs we buy in the store are not fertilized (this is my hypothesis!!!). The size of the egg is dependant on the age of the hen. Older birds lay larger eggs."

www.ofac.org/factsheets/fact11.html - visit this to read the full article

the conclusion:

the eggs we eat, contain no embryo, just the egg white and yolk, which provide nutrients for the embryo SHOULD it be fertilized.

looks like im the clear winner...well, what can i say?HAHA!!!..ure lucky didn bet wif me vivian, if not sure u pokai dy by now hahaha!

so dear readers, i hope u learnt something new by reading this..if not, then nevermind lah..for those who are concerned that eating eggs is like eating embryo's or unborn babies, u can sleep peacefully now haha!

Ps:

Im so gonna get it on monday but who cares..this post revenge for the one u wrote abt the blood test thingy..jangan marah ya~~ hahahahaha!!!!