How does a chick breathe?

Does a baby chick breathe inside the egg? How?

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    Yes it does. An eggshell may look solid, but it actually has about 8,000 pores that are large enough for oxygen to flow in and carbon dioxide to flow out by pumping pressurized air into an underwater egg and watching thousands of tiny bubbles appear on the surface. The head of a chick develops at the large end. About three days before hatching, a baby chick punctures the air cell at the base of the egg with its sharp egg tooth (a tiny, horn point on top of its beak) and breathes the first gulp of air: still inside the egg. As soon as it can breathe, it can peep. We can hear peeping and tapping as it methodically chips a hole in the egg.

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The albumen, the protective fluid around the yolk, allows for gas exchange to occur with the outside world via thousands of tiny pores in the shell. I guess you could call that breathing, but not really in the sense we think of breathing.

Maggaly

Diffusion of oxygen through the capillaries that extend through the yolk and albumen - which comes into contact with the airsac at the wider end of the egg. The shell isn't 100% solid.. it's extremely porous and allows for gas exchange (and unfortunately also bacterial/viral exchange which is why you shouldn't handle fertile eggs with dirty hands).

nixity

My assumption is yes. I mean, it's like the baby in a women's uterus. They are alive and breathing, too. So I would assume it is the same situation with a chick in an egg. I don't know how though, sorry.

jonnes32

it had to get oxygen from somewhere...

Back W

When you breath you inspire air with lugs where oxygen is taken with RBCs and CO2 exhaled out. The chicken inside the egg need oxygen. This oxygen is derived from mother blood through the placenta and not by using his lungs. He uses his lungs only when he come out of his shell.

yagoubidris

probaby cuz their alive when they come out so obviously...but idk how though

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