How to Tell a Fertile vs INfertile Egg (Pictures)

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Doriss said:
OK, I always like to save a life, so if an egg has been found to be fertile after cracking open, how do you save it and hatch it?
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Well, obviously, you can't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

I wasn't being a smart alec, didn't want to sound that way, (went back and read it and thought maybe that was how it sounded, sorry!), but it's no more taking a life than not hatching that egg in the first place. It just gives you an idea if others might have fertility, if your rooster is doing his job. I've been checking myself lately because I have four bantam Cochin roosters in with mostly large fowl girls and wanted to know if their eggs were worth even trying to hatch at some future date. About half of the large fowl EEs' eggs are fertile and all the bantam Cochin girls' eggs are fertile.
 
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speckledhen said:
Well, obviously, you can't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

I wasn't being a smart alec, didn't want to sound that way, (went back and read it and thought maybe that was how it sounded, sorry!), but it's no more taking a life than not hatching that egg in the first place. It just gives you an idea if others might have fertility, if your rooster is doing his job. I've been checking myself lately because I have four bantam Cochin roosters in with mostly large fowl girls and wanted to know if their eggs were worth even trying to hatch at some future date. About half of the large fowl EEs' eggs are fertile and all the bantam Cochin girls' eggs are fertile.
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I hate to be that person, but yes it's possible to have broken the egg shell and dump out the chicken egg contents and then put it back together to incubate and hatch.

It has been done - someone has opened an egg, emptied the contents out, into plastic wrap, put the egg contents back into the egg shell, and then plastic-wrapped the top, and successfully incubated the egg to hatching... I just saw the video yesterday and went to find it again to share it here... YouTube Short
 
@NewJourney don't believe everything you see on YouTube. AI is rampant in editing programs now, all over YouTube in every genre of video. Are YOU going to do that Frankenstein experiment? Is anyone? If that really happened, it was pure luck because even if you can get the chick close to hatch time, you cannot know for sure it is ready to hatch, if the yolk has absorbed, or if it even should hatch, how to regulate just the right amount of moisture in shell, etc. Some chicks should never hatch due to deformity and it's best they die in the shell as nature intended. And to even try that is pretty nuts, IMO.
What I want to know is how many chicks did this mad scientist kill/sacrifice in his quest for the improbable result? I bet the fails number was very, very high, if this was actually successful in the first place. I have my doubts about the video. We are not shown the chick drying off, don't even know if it really was alive since it was a wet chick in an egg he was lifting out, then suddenly, we see a fluffy chick. Who is to say it didn't die, that the video was just smoke an mirrors? Editing tricks are not that hard to learn if you're creatively inclined and have the right program. Some outlier experiment is not something to hang your hat on, though, just saying. Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear is a good adage.
 
speckledhen said:
@NewJourney don't believe everything you see on YouTube. AI is rampant in editing programs now, all over YouTube in every genre of video. Are YOU going to do that Frankenstein experiment? Is anyone? If that really happened, it was pure luck because even if you can get the chick close to hatch time, you cannot know for sure it is ready to hatch, if the yolk has absorbed, or if it even should hatch, how to regulate just the right amount of moisture in shell, etc. Some chicks should never hatch due to deformity and it's best they die in the shell as nature intended. And to even try that is pretty nuts, IMO.
What I want to know is how many chicks did this mad scientist kill/sacrifice in his quest for the improbable result? I bet the fails number was very, very high, if this was actually successful in the first place. I have my doubts about the video. We are not shown the chick drying off, don't even know if it really was alive since it was a wet chick in an egg he was lifting out, then suddenly, we see a fluffy chick. Who is to say it didn't die, that the video was just smoke a mirrors? Editing tricks are not that hard to learn if you're creatively inclined and have the right program. Some outlier experiment is not something to hang your hat on, though, just saying. Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear is a good adage.
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You’re right. The days of “pic or it didn’t happen” are over because of AI. Thank you for spelling it out for me.
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