Help!!

[Tiggerteri]

I have eggs in incubator due to hatch today. I can hear a chick chirping but there is no crack in the shell?? What should I do??

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Hi &

You can hear cheeping as the chick has likely internally pipped in to the air cell of the egg. At this point it will be learning to breathe oxygen and be preparing for hatch. Once the chick has used up all the oxygen and the c02 becomes high it will kick start it to pip the egg externally if it already has not done so. Some times you can’t see the external pip as it often starts as a just a tiny crack in the shell and only becomes more obvious as the hatching process goes along.

Right now things sound like are progressing ok for you so my advice would be to just be patient. Hatching is a long, slow exhausting time for the chicks.