[HN Gopher] Chicken Egg Production (2019) [video]
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Chicken Egg Production (2019) [video]
Author : shpx
Score : 70 points
Date : 2024-03-01 22:58 UTC (1 days ago)
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| bcatanzaro wrote:
| Surprisingly interesting and well done.
| justsomehnguy wrote:
| > As the albumin forms around the yoke spiral ridges which run
| the length of the magnum cause the yoke to spin like a bullet
| in a rifle barrel
|
| The sentence I didn't expect here.
| noman-land wrote:
| This part blew my mind. How the spinning causes the ends to
| wrap and get taught which suspends the egg inside the shell
| to protect it.
| bombcar wrote:
| We're only a few mistaken research projects from Chicken Guns
| - Cave Johnson would approve.
| HPsquared wrote:
| We already have bird cannons:
| https://youtu.be/lp7uLTNiGrQ?si=HfP-goc2vLV5KzvL
| lkdfjlkdfjlg wrote:
| Man the internet (and capitalism) is amazing. Thanks for sharing.
|
| EDIT: Also evolution is fucking amazing. Check out the bit around
| 4:40 about this thing called the "chalazae".
| petemill wrote:
| What role did capitalism have in this revelation for you? I
| don't think it caused the chicken so perhaps you're referring
| to the Internet which most certainly was not due to capitalism.
| lkdfjlkdfjlg wrote:
| Ah. Well maybe not in _this_ specific instance, but generally
| capitalism generates the incentive for people to put share
| their knowledge (in an attempt for profit) and that's what
| came to my mind when I watched this video. The the internet
| made it technically viable.
|
| I'm 39 now. I remember when I was 9 so many things were just
| not knowable. Maybe a book exists that contains knowledge X,
| but how would I find about that book and even if I did how
| would I get my hands on the book? As an adult I believe I
| would know how to navigate the problem of finding knowledge
| without internet, but A) certainly not as a 9yo, B) would
| still take me more time/energy than with internet. This is
| the technical challenge that the internet makes possible. But
| capitalism creates (or maybe just multiplies) the incentive.
| noman-land wrote:
| Incredibly fascinating.
| raptorraver wrote:
| This is really cool. We have had chickens for 1.5 years now and
| they are wonderful creatures, and the eggs you can produce
| yourself are just so much better and more nutritious than you get
| from the grocery store. Makes us want to share the love: next
| month 150 chickens will arrive to our farm and we start selling
| eggs to friends and neighbours. Need to watch the other videos of
| the channel to get a deep dive to the inner workings of poultry.
| krisoft wrote:
| > the eggs you can produce yourself are just so much better and
| more nutritious than you get from the grocery store
|
| I don't dispute the "better" part because that is so
| subjective. But how do you know they are more nutritious?
| raptorraver wrote:
| For example this study
| (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9658713)
| mentions that "Providing pasture to hens yields egg yolks
| with a lower omega-6:omega-3 (n-6:n-3) ratio and
| significantly greater vitamin A, vitamin E, and carotenoid
| content compared to egg yolks from caged hens".
|
| Also the colour of the yolk is a lot darker - more orange
| than yellow - and it has better structure - doesn't break so
| easily when ie baking. And of course the taste is better but
| then we come back to the subjective part again :)
| sparky_z wrote:
| What I found surprising is that there's only a 15 minute window
| (in the infindibulum) where fertilization can occur. But the
| chicken still goes through all the steps of forming a complete
| egg even if no fertilization happens, which seems like a pretty
| likely outcome if the window is so short. That seems surprisingly
| wasteful from an evolutionary perspective. Is this due to humans
| breeding chickens to be more reliable egg layers, or is there
| some other reason I don't understand? Maybe in the wild,
| successful fertilization is more of a sure thing than it sounds?
| magnat wrote:
| A viable sperm can survive in hen's reproductive tract for
| weeks [1], so she doesn't have to be impregnated in this 15
| minute window to produce a fertilized yolk.
|
| [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3944358/
| sparky_z wrote:
| Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks.
|
| It's still a little surprising to me that the process doesn't
| abort early if the egg isn't fertilized. But maybe that's
| such an unusual occurrence if the wild that it just doesn't
| come up that often.
| sonofhans wrote:
| I expect also that chickens have been bred for thousands of
| years for this exact feat. There aren't wild birds that lay
| unfertilized eggs non-stop -- it would be too big a waste of
| energy.
| croo wrote:
| What a great informative video!
|
| From experience the long tube is very distinguishable from the
| rest of the internals as it's surprisingly large in diameter
| (larger than any guts), thick and white.
|
| Also the unborn yolks can be cooked just like a regular egg
| yellow and has exactly the same taste/texture.
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