Can you hatch an egg outside it's shell??

in Qurator3 years ago

Hey everyone, if anything a rather interesting experiment, it has been done before a simple youtube search will reveal a few times folks have done this... but as for myself I am not optimistic. It is worth the experiment never the less.

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So what have we done here. I got 7 cups and cut them open at the bottom. I then cracked 7 fertile eggs inside the cups and covered with glad wrap leaving an air pocket to simulate the inside of a shell.

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I then got 3 and added a drop of saline water to the egg and another 4 without. This was done in some successful experiments in the past so I tried it.

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We then disinfected the incubator and other eggs in the unit, strapped the experimental ones to the moving trays, closed the lid and held thumbs.

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This all was 2 days ago, we decided to open and inspect the eggs 2 days in and sadly realized there where too many large air spaces in the plastic resulting in what possibly looks like rotting yolks.

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We will leave it another day and see but from what I can gather is if in 2 days you don't see a heartbeat the experiment has failed. What I'll do next time around is no airspaces in the plastic and try again.

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Nature truly is incredible.
Have a magic weekend.
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Despite the .... puke .... factor ..... this is really fascinating. I think it's a good homeschooling project for you farm nephew and niece. I have a gap next week if you can come and set it up for us Uncle @craigcryptoking???!!!!!! I'll give you some balls in exchange