I help please - incubator lost temperature

[julieb41]

This is my first time incubating eggs and I'm disappointed to get up this morning to an error flashing on the incubator and the thermometer I put inside reading 20 degrees centigrade. The eggs have been in there 9 days. Will the temperature drop have killed them? Should I start again with fresh eggs? Thanks for advice.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Don't give up on your eggs yet. Get the incubator back up to temp and let it stabilise. Eggs can take some cooling down its far better that than too high temps. My incubator has a cool down feature which replicates the mother hen leaving the nest to eat drink poop etc. It turns the heat off for an hour. Your reading from your thermometer is the air temp this does not mean your eggs are that cool. They will hold some heat within the egg, it takes longer for the egg to cool than the air.
Candle your eggs to check they are still on track.

Good luck

 

[peternaaman]

Keep them in,maybe they will hatch if it wasnt 20" for too long

 

[julieb41]

Thanks for the advice to carry on with them. I've candled twice since the drop in temperature and I think (hope) they are OK. This is my first time so I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking at, but they do look like the candling photos in the learning center articles. Due to hatch a week on Monday. Fingers crossed they make it. X

 

[julieb41]

Thank you again for the advice to carry on incubating my eggs after the temperature drop. 7 healthy chicks hatched on Monday

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Congratulations They are adorable chicks, wishing you the very best of luck with them in the future love the colours of them

 

[Meaola]

Congrats! Cutie pies

 

[WalnutHill]

Very cute!

 

[WVduckchick]

Nice! Glad you didn't toss them!