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title: "Ever wonder how do baby chicks breathe in the egg?"  
description: "A brief explanation about how baby chicks breathe through egg"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-10-17  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/2918/ever-wonder-how-do-baby-chicks-breathe-in-the-egg  
category: "science"  
tags: ["eggs", "baby chicks", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Ever wonder how do baby chicks breathe in the egg?

![Ever wonder how do baby chicks breathe in the egg](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/649db830-ef24-44ef-ab51-416dbe0e27ef/images/942f72e5-1248-4b69-be72-e268dea93403.jpeg) ![Ever wonder how do baby chicks breathe in the egg](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/649db830-ef24-44ef-ab51-416dbe0e27ef/images/1f583eaf-a143-4303-a17f-447b7c422041.jpeg) Chicken eggs' porous shell allows gases to pass through, facilitating oxygen diffusion into the egg and carbon dioxide diffusion out. ![Ever wonder how do baby chicks breathe in the egg](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/649db830-ef24-44ef-ab51-416dbe0e27ef/images/a6011ccf-71e1-451e-aed4-61a55b330125.jpeg) The chick embryo obtains oxygen from the air cell, a small air pocket formed during egg cooling after being laid. ![Ever wonder how do baby chicks breathe in the egg](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/649db830-ef24-44ef-ab51-416dbe0e27ef/images/7832ceda-6787-4083-af09-8bd50d671f74.jpeg) Chick embryo's chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) is a network of blood vessels near eggshell, where oxygen diffuses from air cells into the bloodstream. ![Ever wonder how do baby chicks breathe in the egg](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/649db830-ef24-44ef-ab51-416dbe0e27ef/images/c9f54163-f07f-4859-ba16-d3a79d95366f.jpeg) Chick embryo's blood contains carbon dioxide, a waste product of metabolism, which diffuses into the air cell & out through eggshell pores as it grows ![Ever wonder how do baby chicks breathe in the egg](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/649db830-ef24-44ef-ab51-416dbe0e27ef/images/827b069e-5c3f-46de-9abe-09b3c651fe77.jpeg) Before hatching, the chick pecks at the air cell, providing its first breath of fresh air a few days before hatching.

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