Vol. 51 No. 2 (2013): SCHOOL SCIENCE
Articles

THE UNBORN ONE

Published 2013-06-30

Keywords

  • Artificial hatching,
  • old box camera,
  • incubated egg

Abstract

I have seen hundreds of eggs, yet never have I been able to look through the shell and perceive the wonder within, never have I been able to appreciate the extraordinary genius of Nature hidden inside the wonderful egg. How does young chick, full of life, emerge from an egg, which to all appearance was a mere bit of sticky yolk? I could only find out by examining eggs of various ages. The purpose of this project was to study the chick’s development while still in the egg. I knew that that there was something that happened in the egg when a hen sat on it, and perhaps that is how a chick is formed from the egg.