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
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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
That is really neat I have never seen that before. How do you know if an egg has been fertilized?
I remember in Science class having an incubator and following the process – but when our teacher wanted to dissect the babies I was appalled and took off with my egg – I hatched it in my locker (it was Miami) and the baby chick "Fred" bonded to me immediately later we found out Fred was "Fredricka" but many wonderful memories of her….she would follow me ride on my horse and lay out on the lawn chair with me in the back yard.
Thanks Lily! :)
Love that you have incubation day 1 to hatch I get so many questions about this from now on I will be referring them here to your pictures of what it is supposed to look like. Great job!
wow if i win incubator im so gonna do this cool!