Reproduction in the Chick
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Title
Reproduction in the Chick
Description
A chick can hatch only from an egg that has been fertilized inside the hen's body by the male cell, or sperm, from the rooster. The fertilized egg, when placed under the body of a hen, hatches into a chick within twenty-one days.
Date
1922
Contributor
American Social Health Association
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Identifier
SWHP0038
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No. 38
Reproduction in the Chick
The developing chick looks like this 52 hours after the hen has begun to set
Nine days later, the new chick is growing and consuming the white and yellow of the egg
The chick, now ready to live outside, breaks its way out of the shell
and steps forth a well-formed chick
Courtesy of Katherine F. Carter
New York City
A chick can hatch only from an egg that has been fertilized inside the hen's body by the male cell, or sperm, from the rooster.
The fertilized egg, when placed under the body of a hen, hatches into a chick within twenty-one days.
Reproduction in the Chick
The developing chick looks like this 52 hours after the hen has begun to set
Nine days later, the new chick is growing and consuming the white and yellow of the egg
The chick, now ready to live outside, breaks its way out of the shell
and steps forth a well-formed chick
Courtesy of Katherine F. Carter
New York City
A chick can hatch only from an egg that has been fertilized inside the hen's body by the male cell, or sperm, from the rooster.
The fertilized egg, when placed under the body of a hen, hatches into a chick within twenty-one days.
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“Reproduction in the Chick,” Gallery, accessed November 8, 2026, https://gallerytemp.reclaim.hosting/items/show/240.