Regardless of the number of times I have hatched chicks, the process of embryo development fascinates me equally each time. That a chicken egg can evolve from common recipe ingredient into a living, breathing, fluffy-butt in a mere 21 days fits my definition of miraculous.The following photo presentation pairs well-known images from the Purdue Research Institute, depicting embryo development from the inside, with my own photos of candled eggs throughout the 21 chicken egg incubation period.
I invite you to view any one of my YouTube videos to witness the wonder of hatch day. Baby Chick Hatching in Home Incubator, Singing and Dancing Easter Egger, Hatch Day! Ameraucana Chick Arrives! and Hatching Easter Egger.
Egg candling was done using the Brinsea OvaScope egg candler.
To see day 15 candling video click here
Sources for the narrative information included on these images:
http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/resources/egg_to_chick/development.html
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
Regardless of the number of times I have hatched chicks, the process of embryo development fascinates me equally each time. That a chicken egg can evolve from common recipe ingredient into a living, breathing, fluffy-butt in a mere 21 days fits my definition of miraculous.The following photo presentation pairs well-known images from the Purdue Research Institute, depicting embryo development from the inside, with my own photos of candled eggs throughout the 21 chicken egg incubation period.
I invite you to view any one of my YouTube videos to witness the wonder of hatch day. Baby Chick Hatching in Home Incubator, Singing and Dancing Easter Egger, Hatch Day! Ameraucana Chick Arrives! and Hatching Easter Egger.
Egg candling was done using the Brinsea OvaScope egg candler.
To see day 15 candling video click here
Sources for the narrative information included on these images:
http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/resources/egg_to_chick/development.html
This is my first visit – and I've signed up as a follower. I have backyard chickens; our city house is for sale and we're about to move to the country. I CAN'T WAIT to experience the hatching of baby chicks! Thank you for showing and explaining in detail. Wonderful!
Lana
Hi Lana! Thanks so much for following along. You're going to love the whole incubation process. Don't say you weren't warned though! LOL
Enjoy and keep me posted on how it goes!
This is really cool and I can't wait to show my kids when they get home. Did you do the pictures of the development?
We fed Oasis to our broiler show chicks for 45-days all the way up to show. They did just fine. It was very expensive and the meat was tough. Love the web-site and I follow on Facebook. One day maybe I'll win some of your beautiful eggs to hatch.
Thanks for all the great info!
Lisa Hightower
Facebook aka: Ziptie The Dog
Lisa, I can't help thinking that you're a man when that username pops up every time. LOL
I took the candling photos, on the right, in these images. The others are from the Purdue Research Institute. Let me know what the kids thought about them!
Thanks for your message, see you on FB! BTW: I'm having a Kids with Chickens Photo contest right now, upload yours soon!