Embryonic Development Experiments (WARNING... GRAPHIC PICTURES and DESCRIPTIONS)

[Blooie]

to learn about how it develops, look at all the other developing pictures on how do you think we all have learned so much about how they grow.

As far as I've been able to determine, eggtopsies are performed on chicks that already died in the shell. That pre-hatch death was observed during candling or opening an egg which had gone well past it's expected hatching date without pipping. Those already dead embryos are then photographed and the conditions of incubation/hatch are described with the photo. I don't know too many people who are deliberately destroying chicks known to still be alive before they've even hatched. Every once in awhile someone will jump the gun and open an egg thinking the chick was already dead in the shell, only to be surprised, but this doesn't happen as part of an experiment.

Sorry, I just find a profound difference between the phrases "Embryonic Development Experiments" and "Eggtopsy". This kind of information, gathered responsibly and documented well, is already out there and available to anyone who wants to study it. I don't see a need to experiment on live chicks to get another batch of photos.

 

[lazy gardener]

As far as I've been able to determine, eggtopsies are performed on chicks that already died in the shell. That pre-hatch death was observed during candling or opening an egg which had gone well past it's expected hatching date without pipping. Those already dead embryos are then photographed and the conditions of incubation/hatch are described with the photo. I don't know too many people who are deliberately destroying chicks known to still be alive before they've even hatched. Every once in awhile someone will jump the gun and open an egg thinking the chick was already dead in the shell, only to be surprised, but this doesn't happen as part of an experiment.

Sorry, I just find a profound difference between the phrases "Embryonic Development Experiments" and "Eggtopsy". This kind of information, gathered responsibly and documented well, is already out there and available to anyone who wants to study it. I don't see a need to experiment on live chicks to get another batch of photos.

I agree, and IMO, this thread is counter to the purpose of BYC.

 

[pax12]

We do it to understand how they grow. This is the only way we can study how the blood vessels function that you can't do with an embryo that died. Also scientist studied how alcohol, caffeine and nicotine effect the embryo, to study what would happen if a pregnant human mother used those things.
Examples

 

[pax12]

I am sorry if anyone was offended by this, good news is the egg that was colored on Easter is starting to hatch and waiting to see if the chick will be a different color.

HATCHING LIVE STREAM WILL BE STARTING TONIGHT

 

[Blooie]

I will certainly confess to being somewhat taken aback by the graphics and the title of the thread. However, that said, I do know where the unsubscribe button is and we are always free to use it or not. One of my main concerns is that there are so many younger people on BYC who will get the idea that this "experimentation" looks "cool", and frankly there are few out there who probably shouldn't even have goldfish let alone raise chicks, but that's not my call to make. And you can't control that, I know. There are enough photos and videos of chick development available on BYC and other sites on the web that if I need to know something, I can just look it up, so with that in mind I wish you good luck with your studies as I very courteously unsubscribe.

 

[pax12]

Day 20 we should start to see something happening tonight!!!

 

[pax12]

 

[pax12]

THE BABY CHICKS WILL BE HATCHING AT ANYTIME!! WATCH IT LIVE

 

[pax12]

Would have to say around 3-5 hours to go

 

[pax12]

We should have at least 12 hatched by morning!!! Keep a very close eye on the live stream