Day 14/15 chicken development

Here’s yet another update on my soon to be baby chickens.

All 7 eggs are still growing strong.

We are at the end of day 14

Here is what they look like

They aren’t naked babies anymore. They are almost covered in the fuzz they hatch with. Did some candling today, and I saw a foot.

I saw it opening and closing and kicking it’s little chicken foot. Here’s a picture with an arrow pointing at its toe.

Here’s more pictures. Can’t really see much at this stage other than movement and the occasional feet. Eventually the whole egg will just be filled up where you can’t see through it.

If you also hatch eggs, the reason I don’t mark the air cells is because I’ve been doing this for so long I know what they’re supposed to look like and I don’t see a reason to keep drawing on the eggs.

For those who don’t know what the air cell is: it is the empty space you can clearly see in the egg. It’s a little pocket of air that the chick pecks into with its beak about a day before hatching. That air cell supplies the chick with its first breath, and it makes the chick want to break out of the shell to get more air. Every egg is supposed to have an air cell. Go grab an egg out of your fridge and break it open and look for the bubble in the wide end of the egg.