just found out my incubator was off 6 hours on day 18

[MROOD]

so i have 4 fertile duck eggs, yesterday i candled and all 4 were kicking about
I also have a remaining 8 quail eggs, 6 hatched 8 left

As soon as I realised the incubator was off i switched it back on immediately

all the eggs were cold to the touch, as in room temp cold

2 from the bunch of quail eggs had pipped but the chicks died

my question is the 4 duck eggs and the remaining quail eggs, have i lost these eggs? its so devastating especially when 6 have hatched hours before the power outage.

 

[Debbie292d]

A lot of folks have had this happen, myself included, and had no or few issues. One I’d heard went 12 hours and still had most hatch. I think theres hope.

Do you know for about how long it was out?

Sorry about the pipped ones dying.

 

[MROOD]

A lot of folks have had this happen, myself included, and had no or few issues. One I’d heard went 12 hours and still had most hatch. I think theres hope.

Do you know for about how long it was out?

Sorry about the pipped ones dying.

well i tell whats happened to the 4 duck eggs until it gets dark tonight, then I have around 8 quail eggs and half of those have hatched, i think if it was too cold the embryos would probably shut off for a few hours and after that the beating heart that circulates the blood would of also shut down after 3 hours

but I wont give up, ill incubate and hope for the best, ive have googled it and there are mixed responses, so lets see what happens tonite

 

[Mountain Roost]

I found this very informative:

https://www.brinsea.com/t-PowerOff.aspx

 

[MROOD]

wow, duck eggs are resilient, they want to live, after 6 hours of cold the 4 duck eggs still seem alive, 3 of them seem good, still kicking but one of them seems a little darker than the others and a bit slower,

Unfortunately all of the quail eggs seem inactive I think, though 2 of them have an ever so slight pip, yet when I put the egg to my ear I cant hear anything, the button quail eggs which are literally half the size was pecking away inside the egg like a constant drum beat

The quail eggs are double size so that means its gonna need a few more days of incubation.

Letz see what happens.