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In the Brooder
I was busy working in my air-conditioned home office and didn't realize we had a heat spike out here in the Joshua Tree dessert. I have silkie eggs that are on Day 10 of incubation in a guest bathroom, which doesn't have AC. The ambient temperature caused the temperature in the incubator to spike to 104.3!! 
I check temp and humidity obsessively when im incubating and never let it get over 101F, but I completely lost track of time and of course its on one of the hottest days we've had all year... Just my luck. It had been 3-4hrs since I last checked them, so the max they were cooking at that temp would've been 3hrs tops.
Being that silkie eggs are smaller than your average chicken egg, I imagine they'd be more sensitive to the external changes. Would this have been enough to kill the developing embryos?!? Shoot it to me straight, veterans...
I check temp and humidity obsessively when im incubating and never let it get over 101F, but I completely lost track of time and of course its on one of the hottest days we've had all year... Just my luck. It had been 3-4hrs since I last checked them, so the max they were cooking at that temp would've been 3hrs tops.
Being that silkie eggs are smaller than your average chicken egg, I imagine they'd be more sensitive to the external changes. Would this have been enough to kill the developing embryos?!? Shoot it to me straight, veterans...
