An egg is a round or oval body laid by the female of many animals, consisting of an ovum surrounded by layers of membranes and an outer casing, which acts to nourish and protect a developing embryo and its nutrient reserves. Most edible eggs, including bird eggs and turtle eggs, consist of a protective, oval eggshell, the albumen (egg white), the vitellus (egg yolk), and various thin membranes. Every part is edible, although the eggshell is generally discarded. Nutritionally, eggs are considered a good source of protein and choline.Roe and caviar are edible eggs produced by fish.

This tour of the web's "most curious comestibles" offers Sweet Sue's Canned Whole Chicken (Without Giblets); bottled boiled three-week-old fertilized duck eggs; a drink made from regurgitated gelatinous bird spit; and canned stewed silkworm pupae, to name a few. Reader suggestions welcome.

KEN ARNO THE EGG MAN runs one of the last poultry farms in the San Fernando Valley. It’s entirely organic, with free-range chickens and turkeys, some caged chickens, goats, a few geese and ostrichlike rheas. Teachers buy his fertile chicken eggs so children can watch them hatch in school. With a permit from the county agriculture department, which

Raise you own crops or livestocks! Raise chickens and sell their eggs for a nice profit. Harvest fruits or vegetables; use fertilizers to speed things up a little. Thats about it, have fun!

A chicken-and-egg conundrum is peculiarly appropriate to a question involving fertility. Which came first, the waning of religion in the West or the fall in birth rates?

In this game you can plant fruit and vegetable or raise chickens for their eggs. Use fertilizer to accelerate your harvest time.