HOLY DRAMA BATCHICKEN! (in place of a long string of cuss words)
I was watching a the chick cam on my laptop and saw one chick darting around and around the incubator. I had never seen that before and then then my eyes caught the temp inside.... 109.... I ran so darn fast and cussed the whole way that all the kids heard me... ohps.
In short, our 4 year old moved the dial and about cooked the incubator. It must have been that high for at least 30 minutes. 2 hatched chicks were not moving, 2 slugish, and 1 darting all over panicked. I sprayed them with cool water and put them in the cool side of the brooder. I sprayed the eggs with cool water too let the temp get back down to 100 before putting the lid back on.
Not sure what will survive. With eggs in there not due for another 2 weeks and all the temp issues tonight.... not to mention the 4 pipped eggs that don't seem to be doing much. One other egg has hatched since I closed it up again but I am leaving it in there. The newest egg is the only one that made it to lock down that I got from your daughter @valleychicks I really hope it makes it. It looks so dark but I know that it has to dry and go white because of it's parents! No dry photos of the others yet, as mentioned I sprayed them to get the cooler than 109!
-sigh- What a night. We put a child lock on the closet door so hopefully this should never happen again! I also reminded the older kids and husband what temp it should always be at and where our dial should be set.
Thank goodness for the cam and that crazy chick getting my attention. I would not have gone to check on them personally for a few more hours and by then everything most certainly would have been dead!
I was watching a the chick cam on my laptop and saw one chick darting around and around the incubator. I had never seen that before and then then my eyes caught the temp inside.... 109.... I ran so darn fast and cussed the whole way that all the kids heard me... ohps.
In short, our 4 year old moved the dial and about cooked the incubator. It must have been that high for at least 30 minutes. 2 hatched chicks were not moving, 2 slugish, and 1 darting all over panicked. I sprayed them with cool water and put them in the cool side of the brooder. I sprayed the eggs with cool water too let the temp get back down to 100 before putting the lid back on.
Not sure what will survive. With eggs in there not due for another 2 weeks and all the temp issues tonight.... not to mention the 4 pipped eggs that don't seem to be doing much. One other egg has hatched since I closed it up again but I am leaving it in there. The newest egg is the only one that made it to lock down that I got from your daughter @valleychicks I really hope it makes it. It looks so dark but I know that it has to dry and go white because of it's parents! No dry photos of the others yet, as mentioned I sprayed them to get the cooler than 109!
-sigh- What a night. We put a child lock on the closet door so hopefully this should never happen again! I also reminded the older kids and husband what temp it should always be at and where our dial should be set.
Thank goodness for the cam and that crazy chick getting my attention. I would not have gone to check on them personally for a few more hours and by then everything most certainly would have been dead!
very sad to have to say this, but after a bad fall that chipped a vertebrae and many tense conversations with my DH, I'm not going to have chickens for a long while. A friend is going to take my five buffs. Going to ortho dr and neurologist in the next few weeks. ER dr said I will most likely have to have surgery on my neck UGGGG. Due to my other health crap, I can't take pain meds. So for now I have to take care of my health and chickens and all my projects are over for at least a yr or more 
