>>Cock's eggs are part of an alchemical recipe, too. Perhaps "Scorpionman
>>eggs" are just as rare?
>
> Cock's eggs are quite common. They're also known as dwarf eggs
> and are eggs that have no yolk. They normally occur when a new
> hen's ovaries are getting started and a piece of tissue gets mistaken
> for an ovum and gets an egg formed around it.
I'm pretty sure that for alchemical purposes, you want an egg that was
*laid* by a cockeral, not a yolkless egg that is *called* a cock's egg by
some witless peasant.
RR
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