Incubator unplugged

[missionarywife]

Ok, somewhere between 11 pm last night and 7 am today my incubbator was unplugged. The temp was down to 77 degrees which makes me think it was unplugged last night. Are all the chicks dead? Can they survive a mishap like this. This is only the first week, I put them in last Monday.

 

[grundail01]

I'm far from an expert but I would plug it back in and try candling at day 10 to see if any have developed, give them a chance and they may just surprise you.

 

[greathorse]

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They can survive that. I had an incident much worse than that 56 degrees and a day and a half and had a compromised hatch, but still decent. Mine was two days late.

 

[missionarywife]

My hatch rate was not very good last time. 20 percent on the ducks and 14 out of 35 on the chickens. I was hoping for a much better hatch rate.

 

[Kittymomma]

Plug it back in and see what happens. One of my broody hens got back on the wrong nest and when I came home and found her the eggs were all cold, not cool but cold. The Ruen eggs that I had under her have been hatching like crazy all day. I don't know how many have hatched, but it's over half and I think quite a bit more, I'll find out tomorrow. So all is not lost and you could still get a good hatch so plug that bator back in.

 

[missionarywife]

I ran into the kitchen and turned the incubator on. My neighbor gave me 42 duck eggs and we are splitting what hatches. So I obviously want as many as can to survive.

 

[Kittymomma]

The ducklings finished hatching and out of 11 eggs I have 9 healthy ducklings, 1 egg that quit early, and one poor duckling that started to zip but didn't make it. These eggs were COLD when I found miss broody on the wrong nest and we still had 9/10 that were viable hatch so don't give up on yours.

 

[missionarywife]

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Thank you so much for the encouragement.

 

[missionarywife]

Well, besides it getting uplugged we lost electricity 2 times. I have 2 hatched and more are pipped. Yeah!

 

[Kittymomma]

Let us know the final tally. It amazes me how they can be so fragile and yet so sturdy at the same time.

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