Day 20: Today our chick will begin to show its internal and external pip.
The internal pip is when the chick has finally, through a lot of hard work, made that initial break into the air cell with it’s beak.
The external pip is the first visible sign of the hatch. That little “bump” in the shell. The little crack that you aren’t sure you are seeing. That first hole. The chick’s attempt to make a connection with the outside world.
Look at what is happening today at home: Look at #3
As I was walking in my kitchen I could hear the slightest little “peep, peep” and I instantly ran to the incubator, which happens to be sitting on my kitchen counter, and looked super closely at all the eggs and to my surprise it “peeped” again. It was #3 starting to make a little hole in the shell. Here is a little video of this: