Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[Sparkypatriot15]

My town- high: 48 F
Low: 30 F
It's much colder than usual here! It was supposed to snow last night... HAHA as if xD

 

[Sparkypatriot15]

I went out in shorts and my Tshirt and froze grabbing eggs!! OMG!!! wind chill!!

that's cold..

 

[3Dchicken]

Sally, I read your hatching article.

It is so helpful! Very well written!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Sally, I read your hatching article.

It is so helpful! Very well written!

Thank you 3D ! Hope it helps!

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

Wow. I don't check this thread for a few days and come back to 146 posts! *trying to catch up...*

 

[Sparkypatriot15]

Just came up to check on my bator to find a heat spike of 39.5 C!!!!! Oh no!!! Are they ok? I don't how how long they were at that temp, but I am worried!!!! I candled some eggs, a lot of them I can't tell if they're alive or not, but at least I was able to tell the silkies and a few FCMs were ok... The others, I can't decide.... I will take a pic an post it tomorrow... Could a temp that high kill the chicks? The other thermometers read 105 F- 106 F

 

[sumi]

Oh crumbs. 39.5C is a fraction over the highest recommended. But if it caused damage only time will tell, unfortunately. They may be fine

From what I read you should incubate at 37C and 39C, with 37.5C being the ideal temp. All you can do is candle again in a day or 2 and check. I've had eggs survive a heat spike of 44C once! So hopefully...

 

[3Dchicken]

Just came up to check on my bator to find a heat spike of 39.5 C!!!!! Oh no!!! Are they ok? I don't how how long they were at that temp, but I am worried!!!! I candled some eggs, a lot of them I can't tell if they're alive or not, but at least I was able to tell the silkies and a few FCMs were ok... The others, I can't decide.... I will take a pic an post it tomorrow... Could a temp that high kill the chicks? The other thermometers read 105 F- 106 F

 

[chicksooner]

Just came up to check on my bator to find a heat spike of 39.5 C!!!!! Oh no!!! Are they ok? I don't how how long they were at that temp, but I am worried!!!! I candled some eggs, a lot of them I can't tell if they're alive or not, but at least I was able to tell the silkies and a few FCMs were ok... The others, I can't decide.... I will take a pic an post it tomorrow... Could a temp that high kill the chicks? The other thermometers read 105 F- 106 F

Hopefully you caught it before it hurt the eggs.

 

[chicksooner]

Sumi-I heard a chirp this morning. How are yours doing?