Living the chick grows inside the egg doesn't it?
inside an egg, the white part provides food for it. the chicken itself grows in the yolk.
What you see when you crack open an egg is Yolk and albumen, the white and the yellow. This is actually the food for the developing chick when the egg is fertilized and incubated. The chick uses this food for the 21 days it takes to develop. It gets nutrients from the yolk. If you have ever studied the development of an egg you will see what happens. I have seen chicks born out of an incubator with the yolk still attached to their bodies....
Yes, a duck egg will get heavier as the chick grows inside due to the accumulation of fluids and nutrients needed for development. This increase in weight is a natural part of the incubation process and signals that the chick is developing properly.
Like all embryos, a chicken in the egg does not require air to breathe until such time (approximately day 19) when their lungs develop enough to use the small amount they need. When it is first laid, the egg is full of yolk and albumen. At that time there is no air space as it is not required. The egg shell is porous. Moisture is lost through the shell over time and the moisture is replaced by air. When we breed chickens on the farm, we keep the small end of the egg up so the air collects above the developing chick. This air will be used by the fully formed chick inside the egg while it "PIPS" its way out of the shell at day 21.
There will be kind of pocket in the egg which contains enough oxygen for the chick to breathe in the egg for 21 days.
The developing chick feeds on the yolk sac, much like the baby of live bearing animals attaches to the placenta. The chick has enough nutrients when born to got 24 hours without beginning on chick starter.
They don't. The chick inside the egg opens it from inside when it has grown enough
The yolk of the egg is food stored for the chick during its growth.
to protect the chick inside
When a bird's egg is fertilized, a chick is developing inside.
A young chick develops inside the egg and can be hatched naturally or through hatcheries. The young chick depends on the egg yolk for nutrients.
albumin egg white
Living the chick grows inside the egg doesn't it?
Yolk is good food containing much of what a chick needs, it is after all what the chick grew from inside the egg.
the chick develops on the edge of the egg yolk (the yellow part) as it grows, the chick absorbs the nutrients from the yolk into it's body as food.
There is no definite answer to an unborn chick's gender, even if you candle the egg. Some breeds, you can't even tell until it lays an egg.