Has anyone ever done "windowing" with their eggs?

[shelleyd2008]

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They could make a 'candler' that sets on one of those big projectors that they used back in the day, if they still use those

That way the whole thing would be shown on a bigger area, less handling of the egg.

 

[silkiechicken]

I have windowed eggs. Many eggs in fact.

HOWEVER they were never meant to hatch. They were windowed under sterile lab conditions at work to study hearing development from embryo day 3-6.

There are some experiments where you can get a few to hatch, but the rate is about 10% or so from my experience. Not something I recomend for the home hatcher who actually wants chicks to make it alive.

 

[spookyevilone]

I don't know if it's the same thing.. A few hatches ago, I thought the chicks had died in the shell, so I took a fingernail scissors and cut a hole in the big end of the egg. Outer membrane only, not inner. The babies were, much to my shock, wiggling and alive. I used a damp q-tip to wipe the inner membrane, which made it see through, and the babies were apparently healthy. I wrapped them in wet paper towel and left them alone and both hatched two days later.

It's not something I'd do just to watch a chick develop, though.

Can't she just candle instead so you can see the developing chickie hatch??

-Spooky