Incubator Temps at 121F... Will Anything Have Survived?

[ChickyPants]

I am about to leave on vacation tomorrow and this morning noticed my incubator room was very hot. My older cabinet style GQF incubator is at 121F and the red temperature light was still on! I turned off the incubator but I am assuming all the eggs would have died?

I have no idea what to do about the problem and really have nowhere to put the eggs anyways, unless I put them in my hatcher? I have chicks hatching over the weekend so the humidity will probably kill them anyways. What if I put them in the bottom of the cabinet hatcher and put some towels around them? Would that protect them a little bit?

Really don't know what to do and of course I do NOT have time to be dealing with this right now (isn't that how it always goes?) Wondering if I should just unplug the bator and leave it at that

 

[lazy gardener]

You might as well serve them up with some toast. I would dig a hole in the back yard, and bury those eggs. You don't want to come back to a stinky egg explosion or an infestation of maggots in your bator.

 

[ChickyPants]

You might as well serve them up with some toast. I would dig a hole in the back yard, and bury those eggs. You don't want to come back to a stinky egg explosion or an infestation of maggots in your bator.

I put the ones that are just about ready to hatch in the hatcher, I had checked the eggs yesterday and the temp was fine.

I have about 80 eggs I will have to throw out

 

[ChickyPants]

Should I toss the ones I put in the hatcher?

 

[ChickyPants]

Well I don't have the heart to toss the ones that are not in the hatcher. I will prepare myself for the possibility of a gross egg explosion. I don't know how long the temps were that high, maybe the eggs didn't actually get TOO hot. I will update next week.