Child dies after eating snake eggs, 4 ill

Sibsagar, Mar 3: Consuming snake eggs turned fatal for a 8-year-old child while four other boys are still battling for their lives in a hospital in Assam.

Buzz up!According to official sources the five children were playing in the fields when they came across snake eggs. Read More................Assam: Child dies after eating snake eggs, 4 ill

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Underweight India team told to eat at least 15 eggs a day

CHENNAI, India – India's unfancied rugby sevens side must bulk up if they hope to make an impact at next year's Commonwealth Games, eating seven meals and at least 15 eggs a day, the country's South African coach said on Friday.

"I have told them (his players) they must eat at least 15 eggs a day, six for breakfast and the remaining nine any time, any how, during the day," the country's South African coach Norman Laker told the Telegraph newspaper on Friday. Read More................Underweight India team told to eat at least 15 eggs a day

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'100 percent' Vegetarian eggs & Designer eggs

Here's some good news for diehard vegetarians who may yet like to tuck in some eggs. India's leading egg powder manufacturer and exporter will launch a '100 percent vegetarian egg' in the coming year. Read more..............Now '100 percent' vegetarian eggs!


Egg lovers with a heart condition need no longer fear their favourite food. A Coimbatore-based company has introduced a designer egg fortified with Vitamin E and Omega 3 acids, whose yolk the company says holds 24 percent less cholesterol than normal table eggs. Read more.............Fortified eggs to win over hearts

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Hen turn into a Cock - Naturally

An Indian veterinarian claims to have seen a rare, spontaneous Sex change of a bird.
The Hen laid eggs six months ago - and some hatched - but it later began to grow a rooster's comb, said Partha Sarathi Ghosh, a veterinarian at West Bengal state's Animal Husbandry Department , quoting the bird's owner.

Earlier this week Ghosh and a team of experts visited the village of Kamat -Chengrabanda where the incident occurred.

Ghosh said the bird had undergone a process of natural sex change.

"Sure, it's rare," the veterinarian said, adding that owner Haziruddin Mohammad has called the incident a miracle and refused to hand over the bird to the Animal Husbandry Department.

"Every once in a while you hear a story about a hen that changed into a cock. Such stories are often meet with skepticism, but sex reversals do, in fact, occur, although not very frequently," says a 2000 report published by the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.

The study said spontaneous sex reversals can result from damage to one ovary.
It said that there are reports of some such birds fathering offspring, but that most never do.

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