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In order for an animal to stay alive it must stay warm. While the egg is still being formed inside the mother hen her body the yolk, which has the embryo on it, is kept warm by the hen. When the egg leaves the hen it has no other source of heat to stay alive. This is why you have to incubate fertilized chicken eggs that you plan to hatch.

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