Chickens fed on Kogllegs Magneto-corn produce eggs with strongly magnetic shells. This creates several advantages over conventional non-magnetic eggs:

• The pesky shell fragments can easily be collected using a magnet.

• They can be transported by a simple wire pulley, from which they will hang like light-bulbs.

• They can be used make a simple boiled egg compass in an emergency.

• Given enough eggs in a matrix assemblage, they could also be used to create a maglev train - go to work on an egg! (for those who remember - UK only)

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-- xenzag, Apr 01 2012

French poultry do things English breeds can only dream of http://fr.wikipedia...entin_Louis_Kervran
Paragraph beginning "En 1799, Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin," Be sure to check the citation. [mouseposture, Apr 01 2012]

kogllegs?
-- po, Apr 01 2012


Yes - it's a sort of mechanical version of Kellogs.
-- xenzag, Apr 01 2012


Magic magnetics with GM corn.
-- ldischler, Apr 01 2012


This is asking a lot of chicken metabolism...

Perhaps, instead, chickens could be retrofitted with a cloacal device which coats each newly-laid egg with a thick coat of iron-rich paint?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Apr 01 2012


//Magic magnetics with GM corn// GM corn? Never! Organic Magnetic Corn only.
-- xenzag, Apr 01 2012


...cloacal...

Luckily, I had already finished the last of the Palmer '82. I'm not sure the keyboard would have coped with a mirth-induced soaking.
-- DenholmRicshaw, Apr 01 2012


Electrostatic eggs would be more fun.
-- pocmloc, Apr 01 2012


// I had already finished the last of the Palmer '82//

Just as well - it's getting to the end of its prime. I've given myself til midnight to get through my last case of the stuff.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Apr 01 2012


//This is asking a lot of chicken metabolism.// Anglo-Saxon chickens, maybe. *French* chickens can transmute elements.

[MB] you will enjoy <link> -- read the paragraph beginning "En 1799, Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin" and under NO circumstances neglect to scroll to the bottom and see what's being cited in support.
-- mouseposture, Apr 01 2012


If you decalcified the shell in a mild acid and then re-calcified the shell while rotating it above a magnetic Halbach array you might be able to make a monoeufpole.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Apr 01 2012


Is "Gallic chicken" an oxymoron?
-- mouseposture, Apr 01 2012


This idea expires in 2 minutes gmt :-)
-- xenzag, Apr 01 2012


//[MB] you will enjoy <link>//

Ah, Kervran - great man, great man. He was a great pioneer of physics as it should be, rather than as it is.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Apr 01 2012


// physics as it should be, rather than as it is //

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-- Alterother, Apr 01 2012


//physics as it should be// "normative physics." I mean, if we can have experimental philosophy, why not?
-- mouseposture, Apr 01 2012


//Don't say this was an April fool!// I had thought that [marked-for-expiry] made this very obvious.
-- xenzag, Apr 02 2012


Shirley, here on the HB, an April Fool would be an entirely reasonable, sensible proposal?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Apr 02 2012


Assuming you could get a monopole egg, of the south polarity, all one would have to is fit all local foxes with a collar, affixed to which would be another monopole, of the north polarity and egg stealing would be a thing of the past?
-- not_morrison_rm, Apr 02 2012


//Assuming you could get a monopole egg//

Only from a monopoulet.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Apr 02 2012


eggs-actly.
-- not_morrison_rm, Apr 02 2012



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