Eggs in incubator ruined??

[JudyMcKinn]

Wonder if any of you have had experience with something like this?
I had my bator heated up and adjusted. Put eggs in Thurs. afternoon about 3p.m. Fri. morning we had tornadoes in the area, high wind, and the electricity went off about 9 a.m. (meaning eggs had been in the bator about 18 hours) Electricity stayed off till midnight (so off about 15 hours). Are the eggs ruined, or is there a pretty good chance that maybe they hadn't started to develop that soon, and might still be ok? The bator is in the house, but it cooled down to 70 or 75 degrees pretty quickly, and stayed down like that till the electricity came back on. The eggs are little Serama eggs, from my little new layers, so are really small and probably didn't hold heat as well as a large egg, either.

 

[kelseygirl707]

I wouldn't give up on them yet, Even if the bator temp dropped, the internal egg temp may have stayed up, and a low temp in a bator is better than a temp that is too high, give them a week, then candle, you may be surprised! The Best hatch I ever had was on eggs that I believed I did everything wrong on, those eggies are pretty resistant!

 

[JudyMcKinn]

Thanks! Hope you are right. I will hang in there a week, and see what develops. Anyone else have any experiences like this?

 

[DANNY]

They will be fine.

 

[Crickett]

Don't give up! That soon into the hatch, probably won't hurt them.