Incubator pkwer outage

[Elliebeans]

I've got some eggs coming into day 3 of incubation and I've just had to return the incubator on after the powerboard tripped. From when I last saw the incubator turned on to discovering it off the maximum time it could have been off is 3.5 hours. Temperature was at about 24C. Do I have to be worried about the eggs?

 

[Wezdin]

It really depends, but don't throw them out, give them a chance. they are probably ok.

 

[Elliebeans]

It really depends, but don't throw them out, give them a chance. they are probably ok.

Thank you. The eggs are speckled sussex, which are really hard to find where i am so i really don't want anything to go wrong.

 

[Wezdin]

Thank you. The eggs are speckled sussex, which are really hard to find where i am so i really don't want anything to go wrong.

Yup, i would candle around day 10 and chuck any quitters then.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Yep. Never give up.
During the first few days, temperature fluctuations (below 101F) aren't deadly.
There is even a thing called pre-storage incubation that can prolong how long eggs are kept in a hiatus state.

 

[Kiraeh]

Brinsea has a good article about this: https://www.brinsea.com/Articles/Advice/PowerOff.aspx

In short, for three hours, your eggs probably didn't even notice.

 

[Elliebeans]

Thank you so much for the replies, I'm feeling much better about it now.