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Chick embryo development

It's all started within an egg



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Infertile egg
(no development)



Day 1- day 2
Appearance of tissue development



Day 2- day 3
Heart beat and blood vessels clearly visible



Day 4
Eye pigmented

Day 5
Appearance of elbows and knees

Day 6-day 7
Appearance of beak and voluntary movement begins
Comb growth begins and egg tooth begins to appear

Day 8
Feather tract seen and upper and lower beak equal in length

Day 9
Embro starts to look bird-like and mouth opening appears

Day 10
Egg tooth prominent and development of toe nails

Day 11
Comb serrated and tail faethers apperent

Day 12
Toes fully formed and first few visible feathers

Day 13
Appearance of scale and body covered slightly with feathers

Day 14
Embryo turns head towards large end of egg

Day 15
Gut is drawn into abdominal cavity

Day 16
Feathers cover complete body and albumen completely gone

Day 17
Amniotic fluid decreases and head is between legs

Day 18
Growth of embryo nearly complete, yolk sac still outside embryo, and head is under right wing

Day 19
Yolk sac draws into abdominal cavity, amniotic fluid gone and embryo occupies most of space within egg (not in the air cell)

Day 20
Yolk sac drawn completely into body, embryo becomes a chick (breathing in air cell), and internal and external pip

Day 21
A complete chick (hatched and dried)


Sources: Cobb hatchery embryo development


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