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I am going to agree with R2elk, again, on this 45 minutes is not much time for a drop.. Did you open the incubator? What kind is it? that seems like a huge drop for 45 minutes. That said the hen will leave the nest for  that long to search for food and water. Ethel would disappear during incubating time for days then come spend an hour or two in the yard, until she could slip away again.  She always had a hatch.

Cold is way better than hot on the eggs. If the incubator had failed to the hot side for that time, you could kiss them good bye. cold, no big deal.

NO I didn't open it. But it is the basement and the temp in there is 66 degrees even with the heater vents open all the way. And it's cold outside today and rainy. I forgot to look at the room temp when I was down there. So hopefully all is well when I candle I usually just remove one at a time look and replace to prevent cooling but after reading the brinsea article and hearing you guys respond I am much more at ease.
 
NO I didn't open it. But it is the basement and the temp in there is 66 degrees even with the heater vents open all the way. And it's cold outside today and rainy. I forgot to look at the room temp when I was down there. So hopefully all is well when I candle I usually just remove one at a time look and replace to prevent cooling but after reading the brinsea article and hearing you guys respond I am much more at ease.
I forgot to say what kind of incubators they are. One is a FI 4200 pro series from TSC. The other is an invcaview from incubator warehouse.I have extra thermo/hygrometer in each unit. Probably overkill but I am their momma now. Only 5 eggs in each one trying to see if one is better than the other.
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Thanks I kind of thought so but was not sure.

I see a lot of cheaper thermostats on Amazon, but I wonder how true they hold and if I really want to trust them with hatching eggs. I do plan to put them in both the 1202's this summer when I stop hatching..

Which believe it or not is winding down. I am no longer collecting BA eggs and I think I have enough Turkey eggs for this year in the incubator, but I am still collecting them. I may sell them on Craigslist.

I know that many use the STC-1000 but because it is only good for 1°C it causes about a 2° temperature swing. I got one of these for my unfinished project because it controls to +/- 0.1°F.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271478768535?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

I have one batch of turkey eggs in the incubator and am starting to let hens go broody in order to decrease the eggs being laid.

Good luck.
 
I forgot to say what kind of incubators they are. One is a FI 4200 pro series from TSC. The other is an invcaview from incubator warehouse.I have extra thermo/hygrometer in each unit. Probably overkill but I am their momma now. Only 5 eggs in each one trying to see if one is better than the other.
From what I've learned the temp INSIDE the egg changes MUCH slower than the ambient temp. So, even though the temp in the incubator had slowly dropped, the temp INSIDE the eggs most likely dropped even slower. Good luck!!
 
Yikes my electric went out. I'm on day 8 of incubation. I frantically watched the temp drop to 81 in one while the other read 77.the electric is back on now. Out from 725 until 819.I have some of those hand warmers but didn't get them on the eggs before the electric came back on. It came on just as I got here from the store and taking the kid to school ( he was as worried about my eggs as I am). By the time they get heated back up do you think it was long enough to hurt any of them? There are only 10 eggs all were alive and moving last night! Oh my gosh 2 more weeks of this!


They will be fine. That wasn't a very long power outage so I wouldn't even worry about it at all. I woke up one morning a month or so ago and my entire cabinet was down to 65°. It took over an hour to hear back up meaning that the eggs were cold on the inside too. I still had a half decent hatch from them but I was a nervous wreck the entire time, waiting.

So, we just replaced our hot water tank in the house. I told hubby to save the heating element and thermostat from the old one since there was nothing wrong with those parts. Can I use them to make a homemade bator? I'm thinking about a bigger hatcher lol
 
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They will be fine. That wasn't a very long power outage so I wouldn't even worry about it at all. I woke up one morning a month or so ago and my entire cabinet was down to 65°. It took over an hour to hear back up meaning that the eggs were cold on the inside too. I still had a half decent hatch from them but I was a nervous wreck the entire time, waiting.

So, we just replaced our hot water tank in the house. I told hubby to save the heating element and thermostat from the old one since there was nothing wrong with those parts. Can I use them to make a homemade bator? I'm thinking about a bigger hatcher lol




ADDICT!!! You will never get your 30 day chip this way...
 
What do you mean? I have my addiction under control, You don't hear me talking about getting a new incubator or stealing used water heater parts to make one..
I am happy the way things are. I am even cutting back on incubating.


Just because you have some empty slots in your bator doesn't mean you're cutting back! That second incubator didn't magically appear either lol
 

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