Service – Children’s University

The lecture I have assisted at concerned the topic of eggs. Some kids wrote a question to the foundation: „does laying eggs hurt?” and the lecturer was striving to answer it. During the workshop kids were shown eggs of different bird species. Apart from that they discussed the common topic „what was first, the egg or the hen?”. They all agreed that eggs must have been first. At the end the lecturer said that there were no studies that checked whether laying eggs really hurt, but, apart from individual cases, the size of the egg is always adapted to the size of the hen. Therefore we can suspect that it is not that painful. It was really great to see children’s fascination during the lecture and how eager they were to gain this knowledge.