Any hope?

TaraBellaBirds

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Jul 13, 2013
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I had set 20 eggs on the 31st. Yesterday would have been day 7. While I was working my 3 year old sneaked away from the DH and managed to turn of the incubator.
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This would have been between 5 and 8 o'clock PM. When I got home about 9:30 pm I checked the 'bator and realized it was off, temp had dropped to 78......


I turned it back on and temp gradually raised over night, right now it is at 99.1 and still raising, I try to keep it at an even 100.
Is there any hope that they will make it? I won't be able to candle until tomorrow
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Great, they are just mixbreeds but I was doing this hatch for the kids and they are kind of devastated at the moment.

I lost almost an entire hatch ($60 Wheaten Ameraucana eggs) in May due to a power outage at day 17, only one survivor. Thankfully the survivor turned out to be a pullet (born on my b-day!) and she is gorgeous!

I will update to let you know if they make it. Hopefully it was early enough that they are okay. Thanks for the pep-talk LOL
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It may delay your hatch, but there are many threads here on how the incubator was turned off, power went out, etc. and the chicks still hatched. I certainly wouldn't give up at this point.
 
GREAT ARTICLE posted by Kelsie2290!

That one article has put my mind at ease to the point that I see a thread of sanity coming back to me. I just set my batch of eggs this morning.
Thank you so much for posting this.
 
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