Chirping Egg at Day 15!! Help!

[EggObsessed]

Last night I candled the eggs and marked the egg sacs! This morning I candled them again to mark the sacs and noticed that the air sac in my smallest egg was an odd shape compared to the markings I had put on the egg last night marking the sac. So, I started to mark the new shape when I heard a "chirp"!!! I listened for another minute and it chirped again! We don't have any chickens, so the chirping couldn't come from anywhere else!

What should I do?! Take it out of the turner and put it in the lockdown incubator and raise the humidity? Leave it in the turner with the others?? Humidity in the incubator is at 50% right now and was at 45% over night(incubator is dry).

First timer here!!

 

[kuchchicks]

Welcome!!

Yes it sounds like you could be ready to hatch. If you have a second incubator that you plan on using to do your actual hatch I would remove the egg, raise the humidity (I usually go around 75%) in that incubator and get ready for a chick. If you hear chirping then the chick has pipped internally. It will only be a matter of time until the chick starts to pip externally. You really only need to turn the eggs for the first 14 days so stopping this egg - or really any of them should not be a problem.

So a couple of questions... how does this egg look in comparison to the others with regard to the air cells and development? Are you certain that your dates are right? Where did you get your eggs from? It could be that this egg was sat on by a brood momma before you started incubation.

Keep a close eye on the other eggs. If your dates do happen to be off you could be ready to go on all of them. Good luck. Let us know how you do.

 

[Maikan]

I've had some of my eggs hatch at 18 days, I collect my eggs daily and date them at collection if I intend to hatch them. So as the adult birds are in smaller pens when i collect eggs I know that no eggs were missed. I was surprised but the few that have hatched at 18 days are strong healthy chicks who are now running around all happy and healthy and several months old now.

Just hatch out as normal and good luck with your hatch, keep us posted on how it go's.