How are baby chickens conceived?

Answer 1

After the hen has been fertilized by the cockerell, the sperm is held by the hen and released to the eggs being produced in her body over a period of up to 10 days. The sperm fertilizes a cell contained on the yellow of the egg, and from this point on once the egg is laid the process of what is to become of the ''embryo'' is decided. If the eggs are collected and, are to be treated as viable for hatching, you would clean the egg, and keep it at an even temperature for 5 to 7 days at which point you would check the egg by a process known as candling, where you would look through the shell of the egg by means of a bright narrow beam of light. If the egg is fertile, you would see a small dark speck about 2mm in dia. (the beginings of life) At this stage you would ''set'' this egg together with others, either under a broody hen, or in an incubator. The temperature required to hatch an egg is 37.5 degrees constant with the correct amount of humidity. Naturally the hen is the automatic incubator capable of all necessary adjustments to bring the eggs to hatch ''fruition''. You can check the growth of the embryo by candling at various stages. At the begining, you would notice thread like lines developing within, and around the yolk. These are veins for the supply of blood and nutrients to the developing embryo. Each day the little embryo will grow, just like a human baby, until you can make out the difference, and actually notice that it is a chick. The eggs take a set time to reach the ''hatch'' stage, when, by a small miracle, the little chick inside the shell, knows that it is time to literally break out of the shell, and start its life as a chick in our world......It has a small tooth on the top of its beak, which it uses to break into the air sack at the top of the egg, it will then keep pecking with this little tool at the inner shell, until in breaks through, and takes its first breath of air outside the shell. Bit by bit it will free itself from the shell, and the last bit to become detached is the umbilical cord which attached it to the yolk sack. It takes several hours for the chick to absorb the egg sack into its body, and this is enough nourishment to keep the little chick going for about 6 to 8 hours, when it will then need to be introduced to pecking at food provided in nature, or by the keeper. The chick still needs to be kept at a good warm body temperature for at least two weeks. Where chicks are hatched under a hen, she will provide the warmth for them to nestle into, and will show them how to forage for food. When we hatch by incubation, we have to provide the warmth by keeping the chicks within a brooder, set at body temperature, or within a confined area in a building where warmth can be provided by an infra red heat lamp, under which the chicks would gather to keep warm, venturing into the confined space to pick at food which the keeper would introduce them to, together with clean water. Hope this explains things - my granddaughter who is six, has been taken through the process, so she knows how the little yellow fluffy chicks arrive.

Answer 2

They are conceived the same way as every mammal on earth is conceived. And if you want to see it in the making go to YouTube.