Incubator "malfunction" - did I lost my eggs?

[aja19919]

My apologies if this answer is somewhere in the forum, I just don't have time to search. After losing 24 eggs to a power outage I started again with duck eggs on 2.14. I added turkey eggs on 2.26.12. This morning, stupid me accidently unplugged the incubator and when I got home (8 hours later) my temp had dropped to 55. I've since plugged it back in and the temp is back to 95.

Have I lost the whole lot?

Thank you
Amy
Seattle WA

 

[tmoore8595]

My apologies if this answer is somewhere in the forum, I just don't have time to search. After losing 24 eggs to a power outage I started again with duck eggs on 2.14. I added turkey eggs on 2.26.12. This morning, stupid me accidently unplugged the incubator and when I got home (8 hours later) my temp had dropped to 55. I've since plugged it back in and the temp is back to 95.

Have I lost the whole lot?

Thank you
Amy
Seattle WA

There is a good chance they will still hatch. I lost power for 16 hours last year and all of my eggs hatched. My temp did not get that low because my incubator was in a heated room. Don't give up on them until you are sure they are dead. You can candle them to see if there is any movement. Good luck.

 

[tmoore8595]

My apologies if this answer is somewhere in the forum, I just don't have time to search. After losing 24 eggs to a power outage I started again with duck eggs on 2.14. I added turkey eggs on 2.26.12. This morning, stupid me accidently unplugged the incubator and when I got home (8 hours later) my temp had dropped to 55. I've since plugged it back in and the temp is back to 95.

Have I lost the whole lot?

Thank you
Amy
Seattle WA

Anxiously waiting for an update.

 

[CDel]

While I can't imagine it being great for eggs, I can only imagine that it was a slow decline from 100 to 55 and just because the incubator was 55 degrees inside doesn't necessarily mean that the eggs ever got that cold internally. I wouldn't give up yet and candle for progress here in the next few days.

 

[aja19919]

Thank you for the replies. I don't have the best candling skills, but will let you know if anything hatches.

 

[speedy2020]

I would continue and candle before lock down.

 

[aja19919]

Just wanted to thank everyone that contributed to my post, I know it must be tiring to answer the same types of questions all the time. None of my eggs have hatched. Some did develop but just died in the shell I guess. I am very disappointed that I lost several Muscovey, a doz Marans, a doz blue silkie, 2 Australian spotted, 6 Royal Palm turkey and probably the 11 call duck eggs I was incubating for a friend. There was a bit of $ in that incubator along w/ plans of building up my egg production and other poulty avenues.

I have hatched chicks in it before so didn't think I wouldn't be able to again, however, the top was stepped on by a large dog and all I thought was that he broke the styrofoam and no big deal. It wasn't until I started to check the temps from other locations (this entire time I only checked one spot) that I realized that half the incubator was probably a good 12 degrees lower than the other half.

Time to start saving my pennies and get a better incubator



Amy

 

[cmfarm]

Sorry for such a big loss. I had a dog destroy one of my incubators. I had it outside soaking with some water in it and my lab/pyranes mix desided she wanted to go for a soak too and put her feet in it and was pawing at it and broke a bunch of the styrofome off the side.

 

[paulaspina]

so sorry