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KevLEC
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KevLEC asked in PetsBirds · 1 decade ago

In an egg which is the chick, white or yellow?

In an unborn chicken egg which is the baby chicken,the white or yellow bit?

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  • Goldy
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Neither the yellow (yolk)nor the white (albumen), the chick is the little white spot attached to the yolk,(if it is fertile), the chick develops inside the yolk and feeds off both yolk and white till it is born and even then has the yolk sack attached to it ,for a few hours and this is it's food supply till it start to feed it's self .

    Source(s): Ex breeder ret.vet.
  • Diana
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    There is an almost translucent dot in the yolk, the yellow part. This is the chicken. If the dot is white, the egg is not fertilized. If the dot is almost clear, then the egg is fertilized. The developing chick feeds off the yolk.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Neither the white or the yolk As stated before the yolk sack is the food for the developing chick embryo.

    And the white is like embryonic fluid.

    If the egg has been fertilised then the cell cluster that will in time become the chick will show up as a blood clot on the surface of the yolk sack.

    Its imposable for an egg to SUPPORT two chicks!

    If an egg has two yolks or in other words is a double yolk this is from a young hen or new layer and is just a thing that happens when a bird starts to lay eggs.

    It's not a sign of twins!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    neither. if you buy an egg from the store, there is no chick, but if you have hens and roosters, then the tiny little red dot in the egg is the actual fetus.

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  • 1 decade ago

    The yellow part is the chick, or the embryo,called the yolk. The white part is what the chick feeds off while in the egg, also called the egg white

  • 1 decade ago

    the chicken or chick is the yellow bit or yolk how i know one time my sister made an omelet and in one egg to yellow ones came out that means that egg the yellow part are 2 which means they are twins hope it helped.

  • 1 decade ago

    Neither. The yellow (yolk) is the food supply for the chicken, and the egg white... It's neither

  • 1 decade ago

    yeah , the yellow bit. The white stuff is food for the chick while it's still in the egg.

    Source(s): A chicken in the past life...
  • 1 decade ago

    in a grocery egg their is no chick because their normally was no rooster. in a egg that was fertilize the chick will form in the yellow but is not the yellow part

  • 1 decade ago

    The yellow bit.

    Source(s): Current Breeder of Parakeets / Budgies!!!
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