Up to reading these pages I never gave a thought about cockrals and hens mating. Just thought the one doing the laying, did everthing by herself and some eggs hatch and some don't.
OOPS
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that sausages were to pigs as eggs are to hens— stuart swanston
- I used to believe that all animals hatch from eggs— Bryan Flores
- I used to believe that bunny rabbits hatched from eggs, since the Easter Bunny gave you eggs.— goat
- I thought when Grandma's hens were cackling, they were giggling about some private joke in the henhouse. — Not a farm kid
- 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 hens had teeth.— lév michot