Chickens have belly buttons!

[staceysue]

Wow - we're hatching chicks in an incubator for the first time. The chicks actually have umbilical cords which attach to yolk sacs, which attach to membranes attached to the shells . . . . . very much like a human placenta but instead of lining a uterus it lines a shell. Umbilical cords attach to belly buttons - so therefore chickens must have belly buttons!

Never know what you're going to read on a cycling forum, eh?

[TxDoc]

You own little chickens? Post pictures, please!!!
Don't know why, but I really like chickens...

[GLC1968]

You mean like this one?



Newly hatched chick - White Leghorn father, Rhode Island Red mother.

We incubated 7 of our own birds this year. They all hatched on Valentine's day.

[malkin]

Awwww!

We had chicks when I was a kid. Sweet to snuggle one in 2 cupped hands and watch its head nod down as it falls asleep.

[smilingcat]

They grow up so fast though...

GLC, have you sexed the chick yet? Checking through the vent.

[Biciclista]

haha Smilingcat you're funny.. Do you know how to discern the diff between a male and a female chick by checking through the vent?