Details of exhibit
- Exhibition:
- 1904 Forty-ninth Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
- Exhibit title:
- Six Photographs, showing the progressive stages of a Chicken emerging from its shell
- Exhibitor:
- Oliver G. Pike
- Section:
- Scientific and Technical Photography and its Application to Processes of Reproduction
- Exhibit No.:
- 561
- Description:
- (1) The new-laid egg. (2) The egg as taken from the incubator 21 days later. The egg has been "chipped," by the chick inside in order to admit the air. The young bird then slowly turns round in the egg, chipping the shell as it goes, for about four-fifths of the circle. (3) Then, giving a vigorous push, it bursts the top off and its head appears. (4) The chick at this stage wriggles about, its chief aim being to get a foot or leg out. This accomplished. it places its foot against the edge of the shell, gives a vigorous push, and (5) escapes from its prison. Immediately before leaving the shell, the yolk of the egg is absorbed into the bird's stomach, and affords sufficient food for the first 24 hours of its existence, during which time its wet slimy feathers dry, and it is able to stand and run about. (6) The chick 24 hours after leaving the shell.
- Exhibit type:
- Photograph
- Process:
- [Not Listed] ()
- Award:
- none
