did they make it through the outage?

[raymondjames]

yesterday my power was murdered (seriously, nstar!?) and was gone about 5 hours. I actually drove the incubator over to a friends house who had power to keep 'em alive. Some are on day 21 and some on 17. Do you think they're alive?

ANYBODY!!??

 

[Ridgerunner]

For five hours. Probably OK. It does depend in how cold they got, but it takes quite a while for the interior of the egg to cool off enough to do much damge. Temperature spikes are much more risky.

It's not a good thing, but the cooling down like that probably won't affect your hatch.

 

[raymondjames]

They were only in the outage for 20 min, with 20 min in car, so 40min with low temp. i think they made it but the bator is still at my friends house lol

 

[MamaMarcy]

I had a similar situation...eggs were without power for about 45 min...on day 21 for 2 of the eggs. One hatched fine on day 23, the other died but from malformations and not likely from the cooling. They never got below about 80 degrees.