Can a baby bird breathe inside the egg?

Question

Can a baby bird breathe inside the egg?

Answer 1

obviously, or else it would die.

Wow the stupid questions on here...

Answer 2

yes

Answer 3

Yes, in a way, a baby bird can "breathe" while in the egg. Bird eggs have lots of tiny pores on the shell surface that connect to the embryo inside. Without them, the embryo would suffocate. That's why bird handbooks say not to clean the egg's shell if it got p**p on it. Cleaning the egg off would block the tiny pores and maybe even spread bacteria and disease to the embryo. So yes, bird embryos can breathe while in the egg.

Answer 4

http://www.saburchill.com/chapters/chap0...    about the last two days the embyro will start to breathe.

Answer 5

yep - see the source below (link)...

the shell holds in liquid but also allows oxygen in to the chick.

Answer 6

Yes, I think because they wouldn't be alive if they couldn't breathe inside the egg.

Answer 7

Yes, or else it would not live.

"A bird’s eggshell and the lining inside are very neat inventions. As you know, a baby bird has to start growing up while still inside the egg. The eggshell is good at holding water in so the insides don’t dry up. And it allows the gases oxygen and carbon dioxide to seep through. That’s how the baby bird does its breathing before it gets big enough to break out of the shell. "

http://www.highlightskids.com/Science/Sc...

Answer 8

Yes they can breath in a egg, if they didn't they  would be dead in 5 minutes!

Answer 9

it doesn't need to breath. it gets all the nutrients from the material surrounding it.

Answer 10

They are not breathing air folks-they are being (as we are in the womb) fed through the imbilical cord with oxygen in the blood-lungs are moving but not taking in any air-ok?

Bc

Answer 11

of course.

Answer 12

uhh ya theres an air sac in the top or bottem or the egg they dont brethe in the early stages of development though.

Answer 13

They have gills because they are inside of the embryotic sac.  Same goes for humans.

Answer 14

That is why it is important to not handle an egg to much. The oil on your fingers will clog the pores in the shell.

Answer 15

Yes, although it's lungs aren't developed at first, it will begin breathing in the later stages of embryo development near hatching.  The egg has an air sac near the wider end of the egg which provides the baby bird with air before hatching.  The egg shell is also made of calcium carbonate and has thousands of pores on the surface to allow water to evaporate and air to seep into the air sac of the egg.

Answer 16

I think birds breath in real life so YEAH lol

Birds RULE.

Answer 17

apparently

Answer 18

yeah

i hate birds