First 100% successful hatch! I'm drowning in Silkies!

Yesterday was day 21 of our first (and probably only) hatch of the year. I ordered 14 eggs from a breeder here in Vermont that I've gotten eggs from before on ebay. Last time, I went and picked them up, but I had her ship them to us this time because it was like a 5-hour round trip drive last time. Hit me up in DM's if you want the seller. She's super easy to deal with and she's obviously selling really good eggs.

On day 18, we went into lockdown with 13 eggs (after pulling the one dud at day 10) and by 3pm on day 21 all 13 chicks had hatched! We got extremely lucky, but we also, before starting to incubate the eggs really checked out the temperature management in our old Farm Innovators incubator.

I've hatched a couple hundred quail out of that incubator over the years, but for whatever reason after a few years off and moving to chickens, the temperature was all over the place inside. We suspected the incubator after two previous very tragic hatches. We replaced the incubator and verified the new one was steady and consistent in all internal locations.

We got a super good mix of colorations and one naked neck!

I was expecting 5-7 chicks at most and now I have to re-think my whole chick raising setup to accommodate more! My lobster is way too buttery.