How do chicken eggs get fertilized? *More Than You Ever Wanted To Know*

[joshuahunter]

The blastoderm or white spot on the egg is what forms the chick. The yolk is what feeds the chick. And the white functions like the placenta.

[chancellorofchinense]

The “germinal disc” is on the outside of the yolk and becomes the embryo. The yolk is a food source for the embryo. The egg white is a cushion of protection around the food source and embryo. And the yolk and embryo are kept in the middle of the egg white by chalaza.

[shaynebattershell]

Thank you Becky, I will no longer be panicking over not knowing how chicken eggs are made. You saved me

[sahastimilsina]

lol blastoderm cell inside yolk(yellow part)forms chick and the yolk serves as protein/food for the chick

[MJ-fyyj]

What? No. The yolk is not the baby chicken. It's the food source for the developing baby chicken.

[outdoordoug]

The title sounds like the birds and the bees

[redgreen]

One correction needed to be noted, that the white is the medium where chick live its life and the yolk is the food source where placenta attached to the yolk, so the baby is always next to the yolk in white medium, hope it clears the concept.
Love your video though....

[fakeidonthaveahandle]

This is so cool, I've been curious for years, but this is the best and simplest explanation I've heard.

[hthomasackermann]

you didn't actually explain HOW the Rooster fertilizes the chicken

[fidgetdestroyer]

The chicken is that tiny white dot on the yolk, the yolk is the food and the white is the "amniotic fluid"

[leslielucci]

How long after mating with the rooster does te hen start laying fertile eggs? Does the chicken know which eggs are fertile and just sit on the fertilized ones?

[bethfulton]

Thanks Becky another helpfull video you've shared, I'm just fascinated

[TheChristosb]

I'd like to ask one question.If the rooster and the hen have common gene connection(siblings or mother son or father daughter...does this affect the fertility of the egg?And if theegg is actualy fertile and the chics hatch...are they vanurelable to diseases or leg dismorphia perhaps?

[clarkbotha]

Hi Becky, I would like to know how many eggs can one chicken lay after being fertilized only once? We have one rooster to 17 hens and do not know if all eggs we collect are fertilized or not.

[lesterteachman]

just put chickens with a roster how long should i waite before i check to see when there fertile

[CJ-dtmh]

So the chicken definitely came before the egg!
🐔🥚

[Tumi_Selane]

Isn’t the yolk a food reserve for the embryo?

[rhys]

So does the first egg that come out won't be fertilised?

[karenr]

Im 73 yr old and grew up on a farm till i was 14 but never knew how the egg was produced. Good explanation.

[taeriefaerie]

This was something I've been curious about for a really long time. I love to learn new things and have been around chickens a lot where I live. Just never thought to ask when I had the chance. Thanks