A woman in Qingdao, China, came home from a short holiday to discover that 70 chicks had hatched from 90 eggs she had purchased from a local store.
The eggs, which were left in the kitchen while she was away, were unintentionally incubated due to high temperatures during a heatwave.
Without refrigeration, the warm environment provided the ideal conditions for fertilized eggs to hatch.
Most eggs sold in stores are unfertilized, but in this case, fertilized eggs appear to have made it into the batch.
