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In article >, says...
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> jmcquown wrote:
> >
> > On 7/18/2014 3:31 PM, janet wrote:
> > > In article >,
says...
> > >
> > >> Never took a science class and do observations on various animal eggs?
> > >> They eat themselves. The white is the soon to be chicken and the yolk is
> > >> what nourishes it.
> > >
> > > Obviously you skipped science class that day :-)
> > >
> > > Janet UK
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> > >

> > I didn't take science classes but even I know it's the yolk that becomes
> > the chicken. The white is the equivalent of amniotic fluid.
> >
> > Jill

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> I could be wrong but I think you are also wrong. The yolk nurishes the
> little chicken zygote. Even on an unfertilized egg, you'll see that
> small thing attached to the yolk. That's the chicken.


If you mean that little reddish brown dot, it's just a blood spot, not the start
of an embryo.
http://poultrykeeper.com/egg-problem...-spots-in-eggs

Janet UK