ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -The chick breathes air for the first time, and you may hear the chick peeping inside the egg. This is called pipping. On the 21st day, the chick begins to break out of the shell. Using its egg tooth, it first pecks a hole through the shell.

Detailed explanation-2: -The average length of time between pipping and chick hatching is between twelve and eighteen hours-in some cases longer. What is this? Again-don’t worry. Let nature take its course.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Pipping” is when the chick begins to break through the inner membrane and then the shell itself. It always starts with a small hole in or near the air cell. You’ll be able to see the tiny egg-tooth pointing through.

Detailed explanation-4: -Initially the egg will look clear, apart from the air cell which you’ll see at the ‘fat’ end of the egg. As time goes by you’ll notice this air sack become larger. It’s here the chick will eventually hatch.

Detailed explanation-5: -GARRETT. THE pip, or first break in the eggshell by the hatching bird, is the initial. phase of hatching. It furnishes the bird with a weakened point at which. to begin cutting the shell and complete the hatching process.