An interactive image of a baby chick hatching from an egg from the first pip to its escape from the shell.

An interactive image of a baby chick hatching from an egg from the first pip to its escape from the shell.

Hatching out of an egg is hard work. View this amazing video of chicks hatching. [1:30]

Witness the different stages of a young chicken's life cycle in-person at the Academy's hatchery. Chicken eggs hatch 21 days after fertilization; an incubator keeps the eggs uniformly warm and moist leading up to hatching. The right...