WHICH COMES FIRST? the PIP or the CHIRP?

[ms.cluckling]

one of my chicken eggs has been shaking for 2 days now, and I was wondering--will I hear chirping before the chick pips, or after?

 

[Judy]

When I've heard it, it was before the pip.

 

[ms.cluckling]

thanks!

 

[FenDruadin]

Yup, usually before. Sometimes you get a quiet one though, and never hear chirping. Or you just miss it when it's awake. So that's not always a perfect indicator.

Good luck with your hatch!

 

[gryeyes]

But it's definitely an awesome thing to hear peeping from within a sealed egg, that's for sure!!!

 

[ms.cluckling]

can you encourage it to peep by playing recordings of a mother chicken clucking, or a chick peeping?

 

[FenDruadin]

Most definitely! Or, just "talk" to it yourself--in peeps & chirps, of course! It is so cool when you chirp at an egg and it chirps back!

 

[newlyweds]

In my experience I almost always hear a chirp from inside the egg, about 8-12 hours before the first pip. So excited, I go into lockdown tomorrow with 14 eggs. It never gets old.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

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[rockinpaints]

If they are late hatching I will listen to the egg up close to my ear before I rule them out and sometimes I can hear it chirping!