A SAD STORY FOR ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO READ

[mhoward92]

One of my good friends was telling me today that he had over 60 eggs due in about a week. he obviously was keeping them in an incubator that he made. There was a storm that night while they were asleep and the power went out. since they were in the basement it was a bit colder than the normal temp in the house. the incubator light and circulation fan went out and was said to be out for about 9 hours. He figured all of the eggs were gone but kept them under the heat anyway. but he ended up losing his batch that he had all prepared and labeled.

 

[Wildsky]

thats sad, he needs to figure out an alternative power supply if he wants to try hatch out that many again - thats a very large loss.

 

[mhoward92]

yup everyone has to learn their lesson someway or another. I told him that when he told me about this. he is now setting up a new source of heat that is run off of batteries. I think he will use a "mini Heater" he has a ton of them we use for hunting and they put out the perfect temp for incubation. we obviously will have to make some fine tunings but i think it will be a sturdy back-up source.