Coop Olle was born three weeks after a Swedish woman decided to test whether it was possible to get a chick to hatch from a box of eggs at home.
The small yellow chicken was born in Ranas, north of Stockholm, after Agneta Linge put the box in an incubator. She has named the newborn after the Coop store she bought the eggs from.
The newborn has been named Coop Olle, after a shop-bought egg hatched in Sweden
The box of eggs was put in an incubator by Agneta Linge and partner Bernt Eriksson. Agneta, 52, was inspired to try it after going on Facebook.
She told The Local: ‘I saw a Facebook site called “people who have hatched shop eggs” and I couldn’t help but try.’
Twenty one days later Olle was born – but Agneta is not sure whether he is male or female.
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Agneta was inspired to try after reading about chicks hatched from grocery store-bought eggs on Facebook
Agneta pictured with the newborn chick, who was born after the box of eggs was put in an incubator for 21 days
She and partner Bernt Eriksson, 66, worried that the newborn may be lonely, so went to a nearby farm to buy two companions, who now share a cardboard box in their home.
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Agneta told Aftonbladet: ‘Chickens should really have company, so now he lives with two guys.’
She continued: ‘Eggs that become chicks must not have been cooled, so we’ve been lucky. We had no idea that the eggs could be fertilised.’
Coop Olle was put into an incubator, and the couple have voiced their delight after his birth
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