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15 healthy and active chicks out of the 19 eggs. I am super happy! So is my youngest who insisted he HAD to hold a "peep-peep" this morning when he came downstairs. 80% hatch rate out of the original batch of Pheonix eggs set and I say this has been a great success!

The water bottle sounds like a good idea. I have always had a small temp spike about 24hrs after setting eggs. I attributed it to what happens when I have a warm mass in the bator as opposed to just an empty cavity. I used a Farm Innovators incubator with a fan. Up to now, I have just watched...

12 Pheonix chicks out of 19 eggs set out knocking all around in the bator and 3 pipped. To date my most successful hatch rate of any eggs I have set! I say it has been a tremendous success! Last time I candled them right before lock down, I had a healthy chick in every egg. (The 3 cochin eggs...

Sounds about right. I have seen significant drops in hatch rate on eggs stored for 2 weeks. A lot of places say that it is ok, but my experience causes me to second guess that idea.

Congratulations on the hatch! I would let them hang out in the bator a while yet. All that excitement can pump up the remaining chicks and keep them motivated to break out. And opening the bator can cause a critical drop in humidity that could spell disaster for any partially hatched.

X2 I lost a batch once when my little feller decided to "help out". Came in to find the temp at 109 I took steps to ensure it didn't happen again! Best wishes to you. Hopefully they survived!

X2 Sounds like you are having a fairly normal hatch. And a fairly normal response to a first hatch! I stressed big time over what was happening during the day and a half to two days my first batch of eggs hatched. I am only now learning to just ride it out. They're probably doing better...

Woke this morning to 10 hatched and at least 2 more pipped!

Yes! It seems the chirping of the already hatched chicks lends encouragement to the ones still to hatch. I have seen them start pipping like mad with all the excitement around them

Ya do the happy chicken dance! P.S. I have no idea what the chicken dance looks like!

The chirping like crazy is good! Means you have a lively little guy. Let him go on his own. Better for the little chick. They need the exercise of breaking out of the egg to make them strong.

I kept going over to check on them myself. Love watching them break out of their shells!

Watching them hatch never gets old for the little guys

And the first little Pheonix broke out of his shell a day early

I spent the winter of 09/10 working in Maine and New Hampshire. Tried driving up through Franconia's Notch in a blizzard. I made it the whole way through, THEN I decided to turn around and head back! Let's say I don't miss all that snowing and blowing and carrying on!

A couple fifty cals mounted on the prow of the baby boat and you can become a Somali pirate king!

I have seen some very beautiful Ameraucan mix roosters. This guy looks like he has the makings of a very pretty bird.

Thank you for sending me a link to the English version! I have been frustrated with the low performance egg laying and muscle mass of the dual purpose fowl available at most commercial hatcheries. It takes a generation or two to really ramp up egg production on ALL the birds in a flock, not...

Now that's funny right there!