I used to think that if I stole eggs from the cupboard and kept them warm by wrapping them in towels a chick would be able to grow inside and eventually I would get my very own pet chick.
However I never actually tried it out of fear that the eggs would break.
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that I could make a chick hatch from egg carton as long as I kept it warm :)— Stephanie
- i used to believe that eggs were unhatched dinosaurs, and that if you eat them they could grow inside you.— Nevaeh
- 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
- I used to believe that bunny rabbits hatched from eggs, since the Easter Bunny gave you eggs.— goat
- Bird eggs grow on trees, and they have to go and collect them to put them in their nests.— Ulalia