If you've always wanted to see how a chick grows in an egg, you can see it clearly in this time-lapse video.
The chick video is not quite 8 minutes long. You can see how an egg is opened, the contents are removed and prepared. This content is then placed back into the open egg.
The rest of the video shows how a chick grows in the egg, which ultimately emerges from the open egg in a viable state. It's definitely exciting to watch.
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Anyone who suspects a research laboratory behind the video will be surprised: the video was produced by Japanese students. In the video they show how they breed a chick from a chicken egg using artificial insemination.
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In fact, there is detailed documentation on how to raise such a chick. In an earlier article of ours, we referred to the teacher Yutaka Tahara and the doctor Katsuya Obara from the Takanedai Animal Clinic. The two developed this method and also wrote a detailed paper about it, which describes the exact process and methodology ( see here ).
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But you should also prepare yourself for grief: the survival of the chicks is by no means guaranteed! Although 90% of the embryos survived until day 17, even aeration with pure oxygen from day 17 resulted in “only” a hatchability of 57.1 percent.
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What looks like pure play, but also has a scientific background:
chickens are better suited to researching certain genetic defects than laboratory mice.
In this way, chickens with a genetic defect could be bred in a jar and examined while still in embryo status in order to find possible treatment methods. Stem cell research on chicken embryos is also conceivable, which is generally prohibited in Germany, but is permitted in chickens because they have no sense of pain until shortly before hatching, according to Professor Michael Lierz from the University of Giessen.And the experiments are also interesting for species protection:
if the method were perfected at some point, bird species threatened with extinction could be preserved through artificial insemination in the laboratory.So what looks so simple in the video requires a lot of effort, but is still very interesting to watch.
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