(This answer is kinda late, I know.) Once there's a hole in the shell, the chick will use its beak to âzipâ i.e. break the eggshell around the circumference of the egg. In an incubator I would expect it to take anywhere between 2 and 8 hours from pipping to getting all the way around the shell. It will be pretty quick after thatâthe chick wiggles around until it gets a couple toes over the edge of the shell, then pushes with all its might until its body is free.
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Which would be my Wikipedia entry under the definition of crowdsourcing. Contrary to Jimmy Wales (Jimmy Wales' answer to Why does Jimmy Wales think crowdsourcing is a horrible term?) I don't have negative associations with the term, although I tend to agree with his reasoning for it.