Ever wonder what’s going on inside the eggs as you wait the LONG 21 days until hatch day? Well, put away your LED flashlight and get out of that dark closet, here’s an up-close and totally AMAZING look at chicken embryo development from day 1 to 21. For more information about embryo development and candling pictures, visit my blog post here.
*Photos by the Purdue Research Institute.
Order your copy of my bestselling book,
The Chicken Chick’s Guide to Backyard Chickens!
Available now on Amazon!
Kathy Shea Mormino
Affectionately known internationally as The Chicken Chick®, Kathy Shea Mormino shares a fun-loving, informative style to raising backyard chickens. …Read on
Ever wonder what’s going on inside the eggs as you wait the LONG 21 days until hatch day? Well, put away your LED flashlight and get out of that dark closet, here’s an up-close and totally AMAZING look at chicken embryo development from day 1 to 21. For more information about embryo development and candling pictures, visit my blog post here.
*Photos by the Purdue Research Institute.
Order your copy of my bestselling book,
The Chicken Chick’s Guide to Backyard Chickens!
Available now on Amazon!
This is amazing..I look at these pictures everyday.. I have 3 in my incubator we are on day 6.. and I compare these photos with my eggs to see how they're growing.. thank you Kathy keep up the good work
Getting eggs from a coworker who has chickens and a rooster, alas, we only have chickens. How will we know if they are fertile to start the incubation process? Is it a crap shoot on telling if any of the eggs are fertile to start with? Is there anything I should tell my coworker to do in collecting the eggs? She is going to give me two dozen so that my daughter can put 12 in an incubator and 12 under one of our chickens (hopefully we have a broody one by the time the eggs arrive) for a science… Read more »