I've always worried that one day I'd crack an egg and there would be a partly-formed baby chicken inside of it. I read a book where that happened. I read another book where a shipment of eggs was thrown out for some reason and these little girls were at the dump and they saw all the eggs and they were hatching and there were little baby chicks coming out of them. One of the girls in the group went and starting crushing the heads of the chicks. It was the humane thing to do. I wonder it could happen. I bet they do something to the eggs so that they can't become chicks. I used to think that the egg yolk was a chicken embryo. But it turns out the yolk is what the baby chick uses for food. I don't think the eggs you get are even fertilized. So, I guess it wouldn't be likely to happen. But it could happen, really. Things like that happen.