Do eggs eaten by man produce chicks?

* Fertilization: For a chick to develop, an egg needs to be fertilized by a rooster. Eggs you buy at the store are almost always unfertilized.

* Incubation: Even if an egg were fertilized, it needs to be incubated at a specific temperature for a certain length of time (around 21 days) to hatch. Humans don't do that with the eggs they eat.

So, to summarize: The eggs we eat are designed for nutrition, not reproduction. They're essentially chicken "ovules," but not the kind that can develop into a chick.