Miracle chick

[Athiena14]

So guys I posted a while back about a miracle egg. An egg that sat on a kitchen counter for 7 days after having been under a broody chicken (friend didnt candle it.) Before going into the incubator and surviving. The kitchen stayed around 65-70° depending on if I was cooking.

It hatched yesterday in my homemade incubator. Seems to be doing great and healthy. I will post a better pic when fluffed up and pulled out.

 

[Keeperofmunchkins]

I've read about this kind of thing. I can't remember exact numbers, but there is a range of low temperatures somewhere below the 99.5 required for normal development in which embryos can survive. At just slightly below optimum temperatures they continue to develop but abnormally or at a slower rate, but at significantly lower temperatures they go into stasis. This stasis can last weeks I think without significantly harming the embryo. They can withstand several periods of stasis but which each period the embryo is weakened and less likely to develop normally.

The first time an egg goes into stasis is actually directly after it is laid because cell development begins in the warm environment of the hen's reproductive system directly after fertilisation. By the time the egg is laid the cells have multiplied several times. Then, after being laid, the egg and started embryonic cells inside cool and wait to be incubated.
Its incredible really!

 

[Athiena14]

I've read about this kind of thing. I can't remember exact numbers, but there is a range of low temperatures somewhere below the 99.5 required for normal development in which embryos can survive. At just slightly below optimum temperatures they continue to develop but abnormally or at a slower rate, but at significantly lower temperatures they go into stasis. This stasis can last weeks I think without significantly harming the embryo. They can withstand several periods of stasis but which each period the embryo is weakened and less likely to develop normally.

The first time an egg goes into stasis is actually directly after it is laid because cell development begins in the warm environment of the hen's reproductive system directly after fertilisation. By the time the egg is laid the cells have multiplied several times. Then, after being laid, the egg and started embryonic cells inside cool and wait to be incubated.
Its incredible really!

Did not know that. By the time I found the eggs were developing 4 had died and 3 were still alive

 

[AmyJane725]

Congratulations on your little miracle. Does it have a name yet?

 

[Athiena14]

Congratulations on your little miracle. Does it have a name yet?

Not yet

 

[AmyJane725]

Not yet

Can you post more pics when it's out of the incubator and all fluffed up?

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

This baby hatched from an egg that was in the fridge for 10 days. I it stuck under my broody just so she'd have more eggs to sit on, I never expected it to hatch.

 

[Athiena14]

This baby hatched from an egg that was in the fridge for 10 days. I it stuck under my broody just so she'd have more eggs to sit on, I never expected it to hatch.

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This one had already started forming before put on the counter

 

[Athiena14]

Can you post more pics when it's out of the incubator and all fluffed up?

Yep it's a barred rock mix. Roo was barred rock. Hens could be barred rock mix, bsl, and iso brown