I WAS BORN IN A GLASS!

[LemonLeafCoinProds]

Name him Cup. It's literally the most fitting and adorable name

[Mrbliss]

people who feel bad about eating eggs. don't be. the eggs you eat at the store wont turn into chickens. they are not fertilized. Hens lay eggs regardless of them being fertilized. I've owned chickens my whole life. Matter of fact, some hens will eat their unfertilized eggs to get the nutrients back.

[Turboy]

I think you need to take a closer look at the oxygenation requirements for the embryo. Too much oxygen can create oxygen toxicity, while too little is obviously bad as well. Plus there is also a hydration requirement to be looked at. Eggs have a certain moisture requirement, so it may be that you need to add a few drops of water into the embryo cups. I'd say to carefully monitor the weight of each embryo cup from day 1 to the day of hatching. Keep the weight constant by adding a few drops of water if the weight starts to drop due to evaporation.

[squeegie]

What I always find crazy is... something has simple as an egg has all the DNA information to form a heart, liver, brain, eyes, beak, feathers and everything else packed into it.

[lynth]

"We need to make sure that he is healthy."
*puts one of the single biggest predator of birds on the planet right next to its box*

[julian.pk]

- "Do you remember how you were being born?"
- "There was a huge human Hand, Cameras and a red, fast rotating Ventilatior. I could not move. I could not act. Trapped in the very fluids that kept bulding me. But I could see things before age would have a meaning to my very existence. And after that i fell out of some transparent device that held me inside and there i was"
- "Uhm, okay"

[Brntoaurus]

This is incredibly cathartic to watch right now. I had a Muscovy duck sitting on a nest of 17 eggs. One didn't develop, she kicked one out of the nest, and a few more began to disappear. I suspected rats, until I noticed the smell. One or more of the eggs had become infected with bacteria and had burst, exposing all the eggs to infection. I had 11 eggs left, which I moved to a clean nest, and the mother got right back to work incubating them. The next day, there were only 10. Another had burst, so I went to move the eggs, and noticed two had externally pipped (cracked the shell to begin hatching). I know you're not supposed to help them hatch unless there's no progress for several hours, but I was worried they were weak from infection, and didn't want another egg to burst, exposing the hatching duckling to a high concentration of infection before it's even out of the shell. I gently helped the two ducklings hatch, they were really weak for 12 hours or so and appeared to have the beginnings of infections around the umbilicus (mushy chick syndrome). I cleaned their little bellies with iodine and put antibiotic ointment on them and gave them to mom. The next morning, none of the others had pipped, but the remaining eggs were starting to look black and one had burst in the night. I moved the mom and ducklings to a clean nest and disposed of the nest and remaining eggs (one burst as I placed it in the garbage bag) and cut my losses at 15 out of 17 eggs not hatching.

A little over 24 hours after the ducklings had hatched, momma duck bravely gave her life protecting her babies from a coyote. I tried to chase after them, but it had my duck dead and over the fence before I could even see what it was that got her. The two little ducklings were playing dead in the nest so well they fooled me at first. My Anatolian shepherd puppy is going to be able to look after the ducks in a few months, but she's still too young to be left alone with them for now. I'm looking at these precious, 30-hour-old ducklings in a brooder in my room and looking for any kind of hope, and I find your little cup baby. If it took you three years of trying to get a live chick, I can try to keep my 4 (now 6) ducks alive at least a bit longer. Wish me luck.

[animagus]

This made me tear up . We are so lucky to live in this beautiful world <3

[fimutoq]

Other chickens : “ Yea my mom is a black chicken”
“Mines brown”
“ Mines a cup”

[djsmith]

When the chicken grows up Repeat the experiment with it's eggs To see if there's a higher chance of survival

[raymondkan]

Looking at this makes me feel like, despite how advance human technologies are, we still have so much to learn from nature.

[empyrean]

I would love to see a more detailed video about the scientific details! As a future biologist I was truly mesmerised by this video and I have still many questions left unanswered. Why did so many embryo's died, especially near the end? What made this little guy survive? How did you come to the conclusion of using this kind of cup, would there be any different (better perhaps) way? Will you keep on experimenting?
I'd love to hear the details.

[secla_SC]

Really sad for all the embryos they lost, but seeing that chicken at the end was almost tear inducing. Nothing can describe how beautiful life is.

[SilveryBlue]

"That time I reincarnated as a chicken in a glass."

[karmageddon]

Precaution for a more sterile environment could help keep the babies alive during the growth. keeping hands clean, wear clean gloves, sterile environment. Try to simulate all factors an Egg has- honestly a "Test tube" baby would have a higher chance than a Cup baby. Suspended in their own yolk, with much more space to grow, it may have a bigger chance. Disturbing the babies to check on them while they grew also could have interrupted something important- so its important to let things run its course in this scenario, than to constantly bother and check.

Something else important is that- when a bird hatches, the bird needs to be strong enough to break through and out of the shell on its own, or it wont survive. Thats how nature allows only the best to live.

The reason the baby is weak is that, possibly- because they didnt have to go through that, they didnt have to be strong enough to break the shell. That means theyll need to build up strength in a different way.

[theeswinkler]

I would really love a video explaining the details of the equipment that was used for this process, there isn't much about incubating chickens out of eggs on the Internet and it's a really interesting topic

[fishby]

0:45 The egg white helps prevent infection while the yolk is nutrients for the developing chick. The entire circulatory system is formed starting from a single fertilized egg cell. It's that cell that divides and creates the entire organism. It's more like a tree growing in the soil from a seed than a puzzle arranging itself.

[monsters]

"I'm not like all the other chicks"

[kindlin]

1:40 seeing the actual tiny blood cells flowing is literally increible. Earned my like.

[drsamuelk]

Slivkis cat can't wait for the chicken to get big.
Let's just call him "Tandoori"