The Birth of a Chicken
Friday, May 30th, 2008.
Like other birth photo series (of a panda, a parrot and a Cecropia Moth), these of a chicken could somehow shock and disgust you. But, it is always interesting to watch the beginning of a life.
@ haha.nu.
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May 30th, 2008 04:16
well to be perfectly honest on these pictures is shown the end of a life. When you break an egg to see how a chick develops you actually kill the chick – a chick that would be alive if it wasn’t for human curiosity ;|
May 30th, 2008 04:21
now comes the strange part…regardless of my last comment i still enyojed looking at the photos…could never do sth like that myself though (or at least i lead myself to believe it)
May 30th, 2008 05:39
Are those photos of the same chicken, developing in very clean, controlled laboratory settings?
Or are they each a snapshot of an egg broken open on a different day of incubation?
Just curious. Amazing series, though.
May 30th, 2008 05:49
Awesome post, thanks. There was a similar display at the Body World’s exhibit with a human feces. The pictures are of the highest quality, thanks for that.
May 30th, 2008 06:30
i wonder at which stage it becomes the tasty balut treat?
May 30th, 2008 07:13
Cool! How did you get it to grow without the shell around it?
May 30th, 2008 08:25
“Cool! How did you get it to grow without the shell around it?”
They didn’t.
Notice the petri dish.
May 30th, 2008 09:07
Considering that millions of eggs and chickens are eaten everyday, I don’t see how anyone could be offended by a couple of eggs broken in the name is science.
May 30th, 2008 09:23
I took an embryology lab in college. There is a way to grow an egg without a shell around it. We made a little hammock by suspending saran wrap on a dixie cup secured with a rubberband. Cracked the fertilized egg into the hammock, then covered it with a sterile petri dish and incubated it in a walk-in incubator.
Most of the time, the chicks died because of bacterial/mold infection. But a few did survive until almost ready to hatch.
May 30th, 2008 09:52
So 18 birds were killed for this photostream. I hope much was learned, like the secret to growing human kidneys, and it was worth more than 7 comments.
May 30th, 2008 11:14
Where did this come from? How did they do it without an egg? Sources, please, I am fascinated, and you guys are usually really good on sources, but I can find none here.
May 30th, 2008 11:59
hey y quien se supone que hizo este seguimiento?? que les pasa? abusivos!! la naturaleza se esfuerza demaciado como para que los humanos la cagen con sus supuestos conocimientos y estupideces y llegen hasta ESTO! malditasea! los odio! estas cosas son privadas! o acaso les gustaria haber nacido de un frasco humanamente manipulado a su gusto y tras de todo ser fotografiado paso a paso???? huch! X( qe asco de seres humanos son! ojala mueran!!!
May 30th, 2008 13:24
just made me know fow sure why i don’t like chickens,let alone eat the meat or eat one for breakfast!!!
May 30th, 2008 14:41
You see in the 4th picture that the yolk was busted and in later ones you see the yolk also being exposed or busted..meaning each picture is of a different embryo broken out of a shell and obviously killed. Unless you’re a vegan I don’t see how this is so horrible to anyone..worry more about the conditions animals are put in AFTER they are born.
May 30th, 2008 15:26
you’d think that with all this “experimenting” they would have gotten a better camera to take the pictures. shame on them!
May 30th, 2008 16:54
Some of these commenters seem to believe that having an egg for breakfast is somehow the same… Eggs that hens lay for your breakfast are not fertilised. They are not life forms people!
May 30th, 2008 20:11
I was just about to point out how stupid Bosco was. Thanks for beating me to it, Joe!
If you want to eat fertilized eggs, it’s called “Ballot”, and is popular in Asia.
May 30th, 2008 20:36
Amazing photos! I had always wanted to know how do they take life.
Beautiful!
May 30th, 2008 21:05
Those chicks gave their lives for science.
That’s pretty darn amazing though.
May 30th, 2008 21:11
We can argue about the morality of this procedure, or if it is scientificly justified or whatever else. The bottom line is that we as humans stoped respecting the nature and we are puting ourselves above it, trying to understand it no matter what the consequences.
So where do you draw the line – is it ok if it is done on humans. Ofcourse not. It’s a human after all right? Implying humans are far more valuable then the other living beings on this planet. Which demonstrates my point that we dont respect nothing but ourselves.
It reminds me of a story by a chinise philosopher…
http://uselesstree.typepad.com/useless_tree/2005/07/why_useless_tre.html
May 30th, 2008 21:12
Those who destroy something in order to understand it have left the path of wisdom.
May 30th, 2008 22:43
Chuckled when, after scrolling through the series, the first Google ad right below it was…
New from McDonald’s
Southern Style Chicken Sandwich So Simple. So Juicy. So Glorious!
May 31st, 2008 00:36
Balut is a fertilized egg that has been incubated prior to being eaten, not merely a fertilized egg. An un-incubated fertilized egg looks and tastes the same as a un-fertilized egg although they are more expensive to produce commercially.
May 31st, 2008 01:11
Wow. Fascinating.
May 31st, 2008 01:59
I eat the first stage for breakfast
everyday…
May 31st, 2008 03:09
If the eggs were broken, wouldn’t a more accurate description be that these chickens were aborted, albeit without the consent of the mother? If that’s the case, then that is the point of departure from which you must decide if they were “killed.” As for me, I like eggs with hash browns, some cheese, and Cholula hot sauce. Yum yum!
May 31st, 2008 06:39
As for this it is to make the egg destroy? When we assume that is, it is cruel.
May 31st, 2008 06:40
Funny how many people have an issue with the taking of these pictures to show how amazing nature has been created.
Yet I wonder how many of the people that mentioned disgust at what is displayed have the same idea about abortion. The taking of a human life for the sake of convenience or in-convenience.
May 31st, 2008 07:18
Would we justify breaking human eggs? Good question. According to the Boston Globe, the rate of human abortions performed–eggs that were “broken”–in the United States last year was 1.2 million.
May 31st, 2008 19:50
Abortions are always done for convenience of the bitch with you people. Never to save the life of the woman or to prevent a 9 year old from having to have her body torn apart by having the baby of the asshole who raped her.
May 31st, 2008 20:08
The convenience – inconvenience is really a good case:)) Now that’s one to ponder over
)
Still, if you abort because you are not ready to have a baby is quite different to aborting 18 times just to satisfy your curiosity and see how the fetus of your baby develops.
Surely if you did that you would have to be quite sick to admire such a procedure. Don’t you think?
Which doesn’t mean you cannot learn about the fetus through abortions done for other reasons.
May 31st, 2008 23:03
HOW ARE BABBY FORMED!
June 1st, 2008 00:18
LOLZ at comment #4. I think you meant “fetus”?
June 1st, 2008 05:30
the first few i see every morning, but look at allll that fried chikkin gone to waste. theres room for all Gods creatures… right next to the potatoes and gravy
June 1st, 2008 20:48
Wow, that’s life! Amazing!
Bye,
Emanuele
June 2nd, 2008 04:27
Those who destroy something in order to understand it have left the path of wisdom.
Those who abstain from their particular mode of survival – for mankind, it is knowledge — will leave the path of reality, sooner or later.
June 3rd, 2008 04:22
Haha.nu has a “Top rated”, “Most rated” and “Latest 20″ section…maybe you could add the most commented section as well
June 3rd, 2008 09:24
so that’s why seinfeld only eats the white part..
June 10th, 2008 09:56
you’re crazyyyyyy
June 10th, 2008 09:57
It’s very interesant but fuck you!
suck my ass hole!!
June 14th, 2008 11:46
…its amazing how the world works
knew the theory about this but hadnt seen the real stuff…wow!
June 16th, 2008 23:34
Wow, I love these photo’s, even if it’s sad that so many chicks died in the making of them
June 17th, 2008 14:40
It is not disgusting at all…Simply great and very useful to explain life to children.
Thanks
June 17th, 2008 22:56
Yes 18 chicks were killed to make this but millions of chickens are killed every day so we can eat them?
June 19th, 2008 00:29
This is wonderful photography.
THANKS!
August 25th, 2008 17:57
People who complain about chicks being killed for these pictures must realise that they will be killed for food just a few weeks after hatching anyway.
September 1st, 2008 17:09
Fascinating pictures, very well done. Can anyone answer the question – Is the round end or the pointed end of the egg delivered first ? Question from a child I couldn’t answer !!
September 5th, 2008 23:12
Wow. Sad but still amazing.
As for the egg laying, I’m almost sure the round end comes out first. Think of the movement, it’s kind of similar to when you are in the toilet.
September 24th, 2008 13:19
perfect images, marvelous..increases the interest of student for developmental biology
November 18th, 2008 05:45
aww cuteey we have chick at our skool 3 gorgeous things arent they? love em’ ciao. Naomii:)
November 25th, 2008 06:03
I always knew that the yolk of the egg was what a chick grew from, but a friend tried to convince me that it was the white of the egg. Now I know where to go to prove my case to them!!
By the way, I have always considered the white of the egg to be little more than amniotic fluid, but the same friend told me there is more nutritional fluid in the white than the yolk. I DO NOT believe this to be true. Any take on that??
December 6th, 2008 15:04
You got really great pictures. We’ve done the same experiment on last month, but 7 chicks are hatched before 18 days. Maybe they knew they would be killed.
Anyway, your post helped me a lot. Thanks!!
P.S. Actually I feel rather discusting by the Google adds above-Chicken cooking, Best recipe, Italian Recipe…
December 7th, 2008 11:06
Unfortunate that 18 birds had to die to get the shots, but great pics depicting the development of the embryos!
February 5th, 2009 22:28
ok the chick is formed in the yolk area but not from the yolk, the yolk is the placenta, and just like humans the chick is formed from a “germ sac” and yes the white is the amniotic fluid
February 9th, 2009 11:09
WOW!!! this is exacly the info that I need, since I’m incubating two eggs to have little chickens… for my 1 1/2 daughter that love Animales… and we are keeping them as our pets…
In honor to those chickens that are dead, to teach us.
I thanks the lord for lead us see this amazing process.
February 16th, 2009 06:41
Its a sick thing to do.I’m no vegitarian.I eat tons of eggs.Which are not growing babies.Those who have no respect for life are not good people.It’s ****ed up.Candling eggs is cool to do.See the chick move in the egg.It’s awesome.Sometimes the chick dies at different stages in the egg because of temp problems or other problems.You could break those up.Don’t kill poor baby chicks.shame on you.Killing just to do it.Did you kill kittens as a child because you were curious?
March 29th, 2009 21:25
very good!
April 8th, 2009 20:04
EWWWW
April 11th, 2009 05:31
You are stupid. How could you kill 16 babies!!!!!
Killer!!!
May 3rd, 2009 08:01
it looks like a alien.
May 14th, 2009 02:56
you people are killed. They didn’t kill any chickens, they just took pictures of the same fertilized eggs at different stages of incubation
May 14th, 2009 02:57
you people are idiots. They didn’t kill any chickens, they just took pictures of the same fertilized eggs at different stages of incubation
July 13th, 2009 21:57
thats disgusting. untill it gets to the last picture. thats the only cute part of it. the rest is..just…nasty! take this nasty stuff off of here, its innapropriate. the mother chicken dont want people to see it all. PEACE SUKAAAA.!
July 26th, 2009 17:10
I actually enjoyed the pictures. As I was watching this I have a chicken who is setting and is under my computer desk. Mama chicken comes through our doggie door and thinks she should live in the house. She hatched one egg a couple of months ago and the chick is doing great. It appears to be a rooster. Mama chicken is now sitting on 5 eggs of her own. She rolls them around several times a day. I placed a blue egg under her and hope it hatches also. Our mama is a white leghorn.
September 1st, 2009 12:01
To all those that argue that this is just fine because we eat chickens:
They are killed to be eaten which is a worthy cause, and only worthy when it is done humanely and no waste is produced (wasters can GTF).
These embryos were destroyed for our curiosity, nothing more. We already know what a developing embryo looks like, why do we need to repeat this sick experiment again if not for educational purposes (which was a lame excuse to make this seem worthwhile).
November 5th, 2009 17:36
For those of you that think thats cruel to the chicks, please watch this youtube video and see whats worse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkftODQJ38M
November 14th, 2009 03:38
While it is sad that the chicks had to die…man is this ever incredibly COOL. I homeschool and was looking for something to teach my kids about how it looks when a chick is developing. Wow. Can’t get much more clearer than this! Thanks for posting these.