Freezing Eggs/embryos

[dogjones]

So children can be born from frozen embryos.

But can little chickens hatch from frozen fertilised chicken eggs? Or are they too big?

I would try and look it up but my brain is scrambled.

 

[madurobob]

No idea. But chicken egg <> embryo; the embryo is inside the egg That is, freezing the fertilized chicken egg would be akin to freezing a human womb with the embryo inside.

I'd bet that a chicken embryo could be frozen then thawed much like is done with human embryos, but they'd have to get it out of the egg first, then back in another egg, without destroying the egg in the process.

 

[dogjones]

Yeah that makes sense. Although your answer seems over-easy.

 

[madurobob]

Omelet you get away with that one since it was so cheesy.

 

[dogjones]

You are correct, beyond repoach.

 

[Goshawk]

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001122406980475X

A simplified and effective method for freezing and storage of chick embryo fibroblasts at −79°C*

Stephen T. Springera, Philip C. Stiff JRa, Harold H. Leea
Purchase
a Department of Biology, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA

Received 9 June 1969; Available online 21 December 2006.
Summary

A simple method has been worked out forfreezing and storage of chick embryo fibroblastic cells. Cell suspensions were shelf-frozen at −75°C to −79°C, stored in the growth medium, and supplemented with 10% dimethyl sulfoxide in polypropylene tubes. More than 90% of the cells which were stored for 220 days were still viable after thawing.

*The investigation was supported in part by Grant E-553 from the American Cancer Society, Inc. to H.H.L.

So it's possible, but it's not exactly "freezing a chicken egg", it's "freezing the fibroplastic cells".