Incubator temp went crazy!!! Update: A chick has hatched!!!!!!

I'm no expert but I think you'll be ok. They may hatch early. I've caught mine at 102 but not sure how long it was like that and my eggs are still going. A good way to tell is do you have a way to candle them. If so you could tell of the babies are still moving in the eggs.

 

Heat fluctuates in my homemade incubator. I caught it at 103.8 and 98.4... It’s hard to tell if it will affect my hatch or not but I will keep you informed. I candled yesterday and they were fine. Today is lockdown and I’m keeping an extra eye on it just in case anymore fluctuations.

 

Mines been all over the place, mostly trying to keep it at 101 but I get up to 103-104 on one temp and the others will be like 101 or 100.

I have the cheapo walmart/lowes/HD two temp + humidity sensor and a digitial two temp oven temp gauge. between all for gauges I try and keep it at the 101 setting.

11 says in and I have had about 3-4 infertile and most are moving around as far as I can tell. I think it's better to have it higher then lower from what ive read but don't go by what I say since this is my first batch ever in a home made unit.

How the heck are you guys keeping the humidity up under lockdown? I have so much water surface area but still only 50% humidity! idono what im going to do to get it up at a stable 70%.

 

If they look alive when you candle them- then keep going! They may hatch a few days early, and may have trouble hatching, but you don't have anything to lose by letting them continue....

 

I know its hard, but keep the incubator on lockdown. People on this site ( not me , lol) know a heck of a lot about incubating. Temperature fluctuations are normal. I have screwed up a time or two, I think everyone has. The first batch of eggs i hatched at home were quail. I saw a pip, and decided to help. I peeled out the chick who was covered in blood. The reason was because there is vasculiture in the egg to keep blood flowing to the chick. The poor chick did survive despite my efforts to the contrary. The trick is to see it through. Hang tough this morning.

 

Don't worry mine didn't do anything til like 12-2 pm on the 21st day, and today is day 22 I have one chick and 2 pips out of 5 eggs. DH said this morning one of the 5 that hadn't pipped yet was rocking before he left for work. So just have patience, I think as long as it wasn't 105 degrees you'll be ok.

 

I think it is worth waiting around! Once I was away from home and my incubator was accidentally unplugged. Then it was turned back on and at around 104 when I got home. I'm not sure how long the eggs were too cold or too hot but it was long enough that I should have given up. I was pretty sure that nothing would come of the hatch but I couldn't bring myself to throw the eggs out. Out of the 12, 1 hatched into a healthy and happy chick. I was sooo happy that I hadn't given up on her! I wish you luck! And chicks!