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Post by charleykips on Mar 25, 2009 23:00:46 GMT
I asked someone this earlier and they were stumped. If a chick is alive inside an egg how does it breath? and if you put the egg in water would it drown? Totally random i know ......  |
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Post by Jen on Mar 25, 2009 23:05:51 GMT
erm, i will have to check with my brother but i think that they are like human babies and dont breathe until they are actually born so therefore if under water then they wont drown but it wouldnt do them any good at all.
like i say i will check with either michael or dad at the weekend when i go home for easter.
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Post by rebanna on Mar 25, 2009 23:27:23 GMT
they breath through the shell, so if you put in water i think it would die of suffocation
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Post by scattymare on Mar 27, 2009 12:39:18 GMT
Aww porr iccle chiccy!!
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Post by charleykips on Mar 27, 2009 19:18:46 GMT
Dont worry im not planning on making this an experiment it just popped into my head while watching a really boring Demo on showing M&M ponies, no idea why i was even ther lol
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Post by Blonde Donkey on Mar 27, 2009 19:25:31 GMT
OMG that sounds so like me! was at work earlier and suddenly a thought came into my head and turned round to my shift manager and asked him why orange jam is called marmalade cue him and customer laughing they're heads off  |
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Post by charleykips on Mar 27, 2009 21:48:15 GMT
Hahahaha iv never thought of that, why is it called marmalade??? all these questions left un answered!!! lmao
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Post by scattymare on Mar 30, 2009 11:26:43 GMT
And why is a greenhouse called so? Surely it should be a glass house??
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Post by mariedigit on Mar 30, 2009 21:23:46 GMT
well i don't know how a chick breath's in the egg!! but i have got some hatching eggs that should hatch this weekend!!! ooo i can't wait
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Post by ceej on Mar 31, 2009 10:43:16 GMT
ha! read the post heading for this and I was like Dur...through its nostrils in his beak eejit!!! Then I read it and urm, through an egg though...no idea!
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Post by kitcat on Mar 31, 2009 10:47:42 GMT
Ok, I thought I'd have a look at WikiAnswers:
''Like all embryos, a chicken in the egg does not require air to breathe until such time (approximately day 19) when their lungs develop enough to use the small amount they need.
When it is first laid, the egg is full of yolk and albumen. At that time there is no air space as it is not required. The egg shell is porous. Moisture is lost through the shell over time and the moisture is replaced by air.
When we breed chickens on the farm, we keep the small end of the egg up so the air collects above the developing chick. This air will be used by the fully formed chick inside the egg while it "PIPS" its way out of the shell at day 21.''
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Post by ceej on Mar 31, 2009 10:49:42 GMT
WOW! thats genius. well done kitkat.
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Post by scattymare on Mar 31, 2009 11:23:03 GMT
Mariedigit we want piccies of the little cute chickies. Hey they're just in time for Easter.
*chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken, laya a little egg for me*
I'm gonna be singing that all day now!!
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Post by Jen on Apr 2, 2009 20:45:27 GMT
OMG that sounds so like me! was at work earlier and suddenly a thought came into my head and turned round to my shift manager and asked him why orange jam is called marmalade cue him and customer laughing they're heads off according to my granda it is because it is made differently!!!!! with a jam you pretty much boil up the fruit and sugar and leave until it sets and she did tell me how to make marmalade but i cannot for the life of me remember!!! |
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Post by mariedigit on Apr 3, 2009 7:19:27 GMT
Mariedigit we want piccies of the little cute chickies. Hey they're just in time for Easter. *chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken, laya a little egg for me* I'm gonna be singing that all day now!! of course scattymare, well lets hope they hatch!!!!!!!! fingers crossed please xx |
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