As a kid, my mom told me that chicken eggs from the supermarket wouldn't hatch because they needed to be "fertilized" -- for a shamefully long time, I thought this meant that the farmer went into the henhouse with a bucket of fertilizer (like the stuff my dad put on the lawn) and sprinkled it over the eggs.
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that all animals hatch from eggs— Bryan Flores
- I used to believe that only brown eggs came from chickens. I thought white eggs were made at the store— Destiny
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that cadbury cream eggs real uncooked eggs in the middle Anon
- In my youth,I was always convinced that my chocolate easter eggs came from my uncles chicken farm!— Jamsie
- I used to believe that bunny rabbits hatched from eggs, since the Easter Bunny gave you eggs.— goat
- When I was young i always thought the chicken really came from the big bucket outside of K.F.C..lol!!— kristi