Kind of an off the wall question....

[tharrell]

I have a batch of about thirty eggs that I am about to set, and in the shipment I received today I had four cracked eggs. Well I have recently seen videos and pictures online of people hatching eggs in cups, petri dishes, and plastic baggies and I was wondering what would happen if I attempted this with one of the cracked eggs. I LOVE science (I have a degree in biology) so I am kind of interested to see if it would develop. Has anyone ever seen this, or done this? Should I even try this as an experiment? Thanks!

 

[CANDLE98]

dude google it and see what comes up. if you want to hatch is you can put wax over the crack. let us know what you come up with!

 

[tharrell]

These are cracks that can't be saved.

 

[Ashleyy_x3]

i've seen pictures of this too! and have been trying to find information on it. i think it would be an extremely neat experiment. let me know if you find out anything!

 

[kelseygirl707]

So wait, are you talking about hatching it without a shell?

 

[HobokenChickenEmergency]

I've seen the cup ones on youtube. The guy who did the experiment said they only terminated the embryos (on purpose) after a few days because they didn't want to find homes for the chicks, so it may be doable. It's worth a try, anyway.

 

[hollymh]

WOW, how cool, you would have to make sure they were in a pretty sterile enviorment though or I would think they would get infection and die! Good luck with what ever you do though!

 

[Ashleyy_x3]

google "shell-less chick embryo" and you get a bunch of neat sites that explain how its done and what is needed

I'm definitely going to give this a try
Although. i keep reading the latest stage in development recorded is until day 19.. so i dont know how i feel about leting an almost-born, living, breathing baby chick die for experimental purposes. but who knows.. maybe it'll survive

that would be neat

 

[tharrell]

I was thinking it would be pretty cool to see if anything even happens. I do wonder if the chick will live though because I also haven't seen anything online where they show the same chick alive. Who knows I guess!