City workers thought nothing of it when they disposed of 20,000 rejected eggs at the local landfill that spring. The eggs had been pulled from store shelves for various quality issues – some cracked, some dirty, others past their expiration date. Dumped behind barbed wire with the rest of the trash, the eggs were quickly forgotten under piles of rotting food and broken furniture.
Three months later, the landfill caretaker noticed something strange. The usual flocks of scavenger birds were avoiding one particular area. When he investigated, he couldn’t believe his eyes – thousands of tiny yellow chicks were scurrying about in the garbage. Somehow, against all odds, these eggs had hatched without incubators, without hens, in the middle of a filthy landfill.
News of the “miracle chicks” spread like wildfire through the city. Scientists were baffled – the conditions seemed impossible for hatching. Yet there they were, peeping and darting between old tires and plastic bottles. Touched by the unexpected life, many residents came to adopt the chicks, some seeing it as a sign of hope, others simply charmed by their survival story. What began as routine waste disposal had turned into the city’s most heartwarming mystery.
