Attempt at hatching without a shell!

[Weeg]

Ohh no! How are the other doing, how did it die? I hope the others keep going strong!

 

[britesidefarm]

Ohh no! How are the other doing, how did it die? I hope the others keep going strong!

I’m not sure what happened. Hopefully the others keep it up

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I might try this this summer. Any tips on how to open the shell without damaging the insides?

 

[britesidefarm]

I might try this this summer. Any tips on how to open the shell without damaging the insides?

I just cracked open like I would any other egg but I wore gloves. It doesn’t damage the insides and you only touch the shell.

 

[Jessie404]

Well we lost that first one for sure this morning

How do you know that it’s died?

 

[britesidefarm]

How do you know that it’s died?

It looked like a clumpy omelette and it had an awful stench.

 

[HappyClucker7]

This experiment is so exciting!

 

[JaeG]

Even in a sanitary laboratory setting (which we cannot replicate in our homes) the hatch rate of this sort of experiment is low. It is most often attempted as a means of observing tissue growth, not with the intention of producing live chicks. It is not a viable option for breeding or producing birds for the food industry, but has a place in the research of things like “transgenic chickens, embryo manipulations, tissue engineering, and basic studies in regenerative medicine.”

This page outlines the method used for shell less incubation and is well worth reading: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jpsa/51/3/51_0130043/_pdf

This is probably the most important passage and reveals why it's not a viable experiment outside of a laboratory:
The results revealed that using the culture vessel described in the present study, the highest hatchability was achieved with 55-56 h of egg preincubation, addition of 250-300 mg calcium lactate, addition of 2.5-3 ml sterilized distilled water, aeration of pure oxygen at approximately 500 ml/h from day 17 of culture (Stage 43-44). The hatchability of embryos cultured under these conditions was 57.1% (8 out of 14) when taking the number of surviving embryos at day 17 as 100%.

 

[Corbdee]

Wow this is so cool! I am soooo watching this thread. How’s it going?

 

[britesidefarm]

This is so cool! Hatching must be such a magical experience.

Have you ever hatched before?