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From Egg to Chick (The Hatching Process) // pics

boredstop.com — These pictures give a detailed look into what happens during the hatching process. Warning: These pictures might be a tad graphic for some people.

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  • Hilton, on 10/11/2007, -22/+10Interesting evolution process!
  • pikepace, on 10/11/2007, -18/+5It's funny that when this was posted 9 days ago it did not generate many diggs:
    http://digg.com/general_sciences/Evolution_From_Egg_to_Chick_Amazing_dont_miss_it

    There are many factors that determine whether something gets popular, and I bet there are even more people who sit around thinking about them.
    • moojj, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Shutup
    • wafflez, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1god I am sick of you people. One of them got to the front page, the others didn't. Either way, the digg community sees the content so shut up.
    • pikepace, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1My intention was not to be one of "those" people and it is unfortunate that my comment riled both of you up so much. I am still new to Digg and have not had much experience with the community (though you have added something memorable). I was not complaining, that was just me wondering out loud about what separates the stories that get popular from the ones that do not.
    • Hardcore41, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1maybe try taking AMAZING out of the title.
  • theholotrope, on 10/11/2007, -3/+41Ive eaten eggs every morning for years now...

    Im sorry!!!
    • lolcat77, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16Lol, but they don't (usually) come fertilized from the grocery store
      • glasgowm, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21I cracked a egg once and hundreds of blood came out of it... I live in the UK though and our eggs are brown :D
      • seventoes, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Can anyone translate "hundreds of blood"? I cant even figure out what hes trying to say...
      • jbink303, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Unless you live in the Philippines or Vietnam (or Cambodia, apparently). Ew.

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut
    • Cracken, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I'm quite sure the eggs you've bought and eaten were not fertilized. Continue to chow down. :)

      On a side note, the warning about the pictures being graphic is laughable. Saw the same thing in 6th grade science books.
  • joerod, on 10/11/2007, -2/+33what came first?
    • Error601, on 10/11/2007, -12/+4Eggs came long before chickens.
    • Tamriel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25I always thought it was the rooster.
    • Dokument, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10jesus
    • trogdoor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8http://www.snorgtees.com/images/WhichCameFirst_Fullpic_1.gif
    • G001, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24Feel free to digg me down for giving a serious answer to a stupid question, but...

      The egg came first.

      At some point in evolution there was a chicken precursor whose offspring had the final mutation necessary for us to consider it a chicken. This mutation was almost certainly something other than the ability to lay eggs, because eggs have been around since the dinosaurs. It's very unlikely a chicken precursor gave live birth to a chicken that could lay eggs. Rather, it's very likely a chicken precursor laid an egg with a chicken inside it. Ergo, the egg came first.

      So there.
      • 2point71, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4hear hear! i've always gone with the 'reptiles lay eggs. dinos are reptiles. eggs first.' theory... everyone else doesn't agree... you rock.
      • blaze4metal, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Exactly. It all boils down to evolution/creationism in the end.
    • aceallways, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1I always thought it was obvious.

      I figure the chicken came first so it could take care of the egg.

      How could an egg appear from nowhere? Let alone be randomly incubated, and how would the chick survive?
      • ryanjensen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3How could a chicken appear from nowhere?
      • Infekted, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1yeah i kinda agree more on the chicken came first. even if we are talking about evolution.
        whatever species it is, it would evolve to chicken 1st so that they could lay a chicken egg.
        then take care of it till it hatches.

        we all saw what happen to unwatched egg... they stay egg.
        • Shelby69, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1How stupid are you people? "Evolve to chicken first, then lay egg"?!
          So one chicken evolves during it's lifetime and by the time it lays an egg it's a chicken? No, it had to be born a chicken, out of an egg!
          G001's explanation was perfect. The egg had to have come first. How can you say all this nonsense about the chicken needing to care for the egg. The chickeny parent who gave birth to the first chicken was very very close to a chicken but still not today's chicken. Even though it wasn't a complete chicken it still could take care of the egg just fine! Then the egg hatched and it was a regular chicken. God did not just make a chicken out of thin air. So you can't ever claim chickens came first.
  • Error601, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Very cool
  • Dradis, on 10/11/2007, -3/+30Wow do I ever not want to eat eggs now.
  • Munceenuts, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Yum.
    • nihility, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yeah, I think I still prefer my eggs scrambled.
  • Cloned, on 10/11/2007, -1/+42How did they get it to develop without the shell?
    • converge, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24They must have sacrificed 18 chicken eggs.
    • gregmo, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2Yea my mind is pretty blown at this point
    • glasgowm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12I'm assuming they took 17 fertilized eggs and cracked them at different time frames. This is obvious as the yoke in #5 has leaked upon cracking, but is fine in #6 onwards
      • mikeon, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Is it just me, or does that background where they cracked the eggs into look like a frying pan?

        EDIT: Boo at me for not seeing the same comment I made below me.
    • acdcfanbill, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5obviously they bread a species of chicken with transparent eggs!
    • lastmanfx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Chicks can grow without a shell. It just has to be the proper environment for it to grow. At the university I attended, we grew shell-less chicks in a clear plastic covered with plastic wrap and a petri dish. The chick will grow all the way to right before its supposed to hatch and then dies. A brutal fate for research I'd say. So you can actually monitor the chicks growth progress over the long period pending it doesn't get contaminated. In the case for these photos, those are 17 different eggs.
      I have more info on the shell-less chick if anyone is interested.
  • UtahApocalyse, on 10/11/2007, -1/+66does it look like they egg is sitting in a frying pan to anyone else?
    • blaze4metal, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2That's what I thought too. Sunny side up.
  • TheFourthDay, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11i still prefer them scrambled.
  • Krovvy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10They should show the video of chickens being hatched in mass, it's disturbing. After watching it I almost couldn't eat chicken, but then I realized I really loved eating chicken...

    Anyway, it looked super cruel... :|
    • owlfeathers, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1You understand that eating chickens is cruel...and you do it anyways? What?
    • ummagummas08, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1In the words of the famous Leroy Jenkins

      "At least I have chicken"
  • veganoob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14that was cool, but the dog with the porcupine quills in it is a lot funnier if you click "next" at the bottom.
  • MadTom, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24So how the hell do they come out dry and with fur? I think you missed a few steps..
    • mdamisch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9You don't know of the auto-dry cycle inside the egg?
  • linkin1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9I would like to eat picture #14...eggs AND chicken!
    • mikeon, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1You should try it. Just boil the fertilized egg, put it in a special holder for eggs crack it open add some salt and enjoy. It's real tasty and a delicacy. Gotta use a super small spoon though to scoop out the innards and don't forget to slurp up the juice.
  • Feener, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The 10th picture looks like a little Grey alien
  • fernB, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Funny thing its edible at each stage.
    • Cracken, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2balut.
      Though I have have heard some people call it balu (sounds like blue).
  • pumpedvideo, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3This mofo stole other ppl's work without giving credit
  • SlipStream89, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Mmm... Delicious
  • sepultura, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8http://duggmirror.com/general_sciences/From_Egg_to_Chick_The_Hatching_Process_pics/
  • linkin1, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1that's a tasty cheggen
  • Jist, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Delicious, every step of the way!
  • earthceltic, on 10/11/2007, -8/+2a "tad graphic"...

    I'm sorry but people should know what they eat. Packaged meat products have this nasty way of shielding people from how they indirectly slaughter these animals. There are a few people who would gladly turn Doom 3 on a slaughterhouse and go nuts killing everything in sight (so they say) but the majority of intelligent people want all the work done for them so they don't have to come to face it.

    The article is a great one, but I'm interested to see all the comments from people who don't realize how much of animal lovers they really are. For the record, I am a 14 year vegetarian. I do not go out of my way to persuade people to change their habits but I -do- try to promote industry awareness (how they seem to think we're all brainless sheep and will eat anything that they throw at us) and making informed choices on the procedures that go into our food (whether it be eating meat or otherwise).
    • Disease, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6LOL

      Meat ftw
    • BHDown, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1I'm not really sure how eating an unfertilized egg has anything to do with a fertilized egg as pictured in the link.

      Last I checked eggs were *not* a packaged meat.
      • earthceltic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1It is all part of the same industry. These chickens will eventually be packaged the same way in the end (especially the ones that people are so grossed out about eating in the comments here).
        Wingspan of average Leghorn chicken: 26 inches
        Space average leghorn chicken given in egg factories: 6 inches
        You wanna live like that your whole life?
        • owlfeathers, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Most people just don't care. Sad but true.
    • PURDooM, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2People are still people. Just because we think animals are cuddly and have never been starving enough to eat meat does not mean people were not meant to eat meat. You're spoiled by your shelter and domesticism and should learn to live like people were meant to live.
    • phasm42, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I'm not a vegetarian (and have no intention to change), but I can't understand why your comment was dugg down. I agree it's a good thing to make people more aware of where their food comes from. I will still eat eggs and chickens after seeing that, but if you don't want to see it because you're afraid it'll change your mind, maybe it's time to give this some more thought.
  • smurf22, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2For all the people wondering neither the egg nor the chicken came first, Chuck Norris decided one day he wanted something tasty for breakfast.
  • JDoorjam, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22It was an egg yolk, and then an egg yolk with a little purple dot, and then I threw up a little in my mouth, and then, aawww, a cute little chick!
  • deeter, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16@Cloned
    These photo are not of the same egg. Once you crack an egg, it's dead. They opened up and photographed different eggs at different stages.

    @Dradis others feeling disgusted about eating eggs
    The eggs we eat are not fertilized! Eggs from grocery stores will NOT hatch into chicks. A hen will lay eggs whether it has mated or not.
    If hen has been knocked up by a rooster, she will lay fertilized eggs which will hatch into chicken. If there's is no rooster, hen will still lay unfertilized eggs.
    • owlfeathers, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0I've cracked open an egg that had a fetus in it. They don't check each egg as closely as they should. It's pretty traumatizing to have your breakfast staring back at you.

      Also, hens lay eggs due to stimuli. That's why they use shock cages. So hens will lay more eggs. Cruel, yes, but we don't live in a Magic Schoolbus world where chickens are free to roam and bump uglies when they feel like it.
      • PhireN, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Which is why you don't buy free range eggs. Battery eggs for all their horrible, horrible animal cruelty have 2 advantages.
        1) There is no chance of a fertilised egg
        2) They are cheaper
        So you have 2 choices, inhumanly treat chickens to get cheap eggs. Or pay more and get eggs from chickens that wern't so inhumanly treated but risk the chance of getting eggs that might traumatize you for live
        • owlfeathers, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Wasn't a free range egg. It was just a regular ol' Wal*Mart egg. Also, free range isn't really any better than farm factory raised.

          I don't eat eggs anymore, so I don't have this problem.
    • seventoes, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Hey deeter, see this fancy new comment system? Nice, isnt it? Try it out some time.
      • deeter, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I actually almost did... I hit reply then suddenly recalled that I don't like it. Therefore I boycott new system!
  • cbabraham, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Ok I may be crazy, but have a feeling that the cute yellow chick at the end isn't the same chick being grown in the petri dish.
    Looks like a nicer camera and a too good to be true chick imo.
    Who knows if the petri dish chick even lived.
    • xxNIRVANAxx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Once you crack an egg, the chick is dead.

      18 chicks were sacrificed.
  • RobMackenzie, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11"I was at a restaurant, and I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress understood me. She asked me, "How would you like your eggs?" I thought I would answer her anyway and said, "Incubated! And then raised, plucked, beheaded, cut up, put onto a grill, and then put onto a bun. Damn! I don't have that much time! Scrambled!" -Mitch Hedberg
  • DAVIDPOWERZ, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1awww.....how cute!

    (im never eating eggs againn...)
    (wait no...those omelletees are calling me...)
  • DruSam, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2This changes nothing for me. Chickens are too damn tasty.
  • krusher, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5For those who ask how the chick could develop outside the egg: The pics were made breaking the eggs at different stages. A shame, IMHO.
  • steveoco, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7GO CHICKEN FETUS!!! GO!!!
  • SweetChinMusic, on 10/11/2007, -4/+0Which came first?
    • trogdoor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Not your comment.
    • firemaker103, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Dinosaurs were laying eggs long before chickens existed.
  • ChupaCadabra, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7This is only "graphic" to those so sheltered that they have no idea how life works.
  • anemeli, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2@earthceltic and everyone who wants to give up their omellettes:
    An omelette is NOT a chicken embryo scramble. No chick would ever be produced from those eggs because they're NOT fertilized. None of the eggs we get at stores are.

    I'm not disputing animal cruelty in the industry, but let's not confuse ourselves.
  • oonix, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2this made me sing the egg song.
    http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/eggsong.php
  • crackedplastic, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2Buried as spam. The entire site consists of stolen (uncredited) images and ads.
  • 2point71, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2eggs... eggs... i just ate.. oh ddear.
  • Ohmfg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1http://bp3.blogger.com/_Fa-NqGm0-Lk/Rn7z9IuDJlI/AAAAAAAABc0/FMKvu5p6ifo/s400/egg9.jpg

    Please stop staring at me with those judging eyes..
  • Raian, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1okay WHERE did they grow the chick? that seemed very unethical.
    • abdrahman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0In an egg... well eggs actually(as has been mentioned before). Secondly, how is it unethical, chickens are some of the dumbest ***** animals known to man, pretty much second only to fish; if they were growing a chimpanzee fetus "in vitro", then I maybe would care, but it is just a dumb chicken.
      • owlfeathers, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Fish have to be pretty smart, what with all that spawning and navigation to the other end of the earth and all.

        Domesticated chickens, sure. Wild chickens? Those bitches are pretty vicious.
  • oneblackcitizen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I know a few Vietnamese people who would consider that a delicacy.

    half developed chicken embryos mmmmm mmm....... tasty!
    • oneblackcitizen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0okay so it's duck eggs, not chicken. my bad.
  • DragonGirl724, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Did anyone else click Next and see that ***** up pooch?? damn. :-(

    http://www.boredstop.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=122&Itemid=31
  • jamesong14, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1You guys should bring back you eyes with this photo.
    http://paktamkopitiam.malaysianfood.com.my
  • thunked, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0The egg after fertilization is put into a clear hatch case. These pictures show the birds growth and different stages throughout the process. Look on any science supply site you can buy these hatch cases.
  • colberrep, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0this is good in that most americans don't realize their meat actually was a living being at one point. they think that their fast food sandwich meat really came from nature in that processed square. they also think iraq was behind 9/11. morons.
    • owlfeathers, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I'm imagining trees growing hamburgers.
      • Buzz1170, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I thought chicken sandwiches came from mines under the earth dug by magical dwarfs
  • Buzz1170, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0How did they get the pics? take an egg and put it under plastic? weird-ish...
  • viviwanu, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1How did an egg without shell in a frying pan become a chick? Was it magic?
  • Mounit98, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1WOW thats the most incredible thing Ive seen in a very long time!!! Thats just amazing. Im wondering how they did this tho? Sounds very confusing to me.

    I dont know if I will be able to eat another egg again!
  • shernshiou, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1mirror http://shernshiou.utpian.net/index.php/2007/10/17/ ...
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