Lost my bator load.......

[jeaucamom]

BTW, what day were you on and how long were they cold??

 

[Leslie In North Pole]

You may want to temporarily wrap your eggs in a couple of towels and place on a heating pad on low, turning them everyonce in awhile and rotating them away from the pad. If you get them back to your body temp, they should start developing again.

One way I have found for bringing the temp of a styro bator quickly is get a several rubbermaid/tupperware containers with lids and fill them with very hot water. Place them in your bator, don't fiddle with the controls and leave them for a couple of hours, check the temp. Once you get your bator back up to temp, pull a container out and replace with eggs. When it comes back up to temp, remove another container and fill the spot with eggs. I would keep doing this until all of your eggs are back in and to temp, then if you have a turner, that is when I would quickly put it back in.

Or if your bator isn't full, place a hot water bottle in your bator full of hot water, the radiant heat should help warm your eggs up quicker. I bet some of them pull through.

Several years ago, so experiments were done with shipping developing eggs.

They would incubate the eggs for at least five days, then box them up and mail them to another person who would place them into their warmed up bator and finish incubating. They were successful at hatching healthy chicks, so I am sure you can get some of your to hatch as well.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

"Several years ago, so experiments were done with shipping developing eggs.

They would incubate the eggs for at least five days, then box them up and mail them to another person who would place them into their warmed up bator and finish incubating."

That's interesting! What was the purpose of the experiment?

Lisa

 

[adeters2]

I was only on day 8, and I will try to see if any will hatch. I'll keep you guys posted as to the progress. They were off power for about 8 hours. Not sure how long they were that cold though. My feet are just staring to warm back up! lol It would be nice if some did hatch.... Thanks for the advice and I'll see where it takes me....

 

[Leslie In North Pole]

I think they were testing if it could be done and if they could increase the number of fertiles being shipped as early incubation could help you cull out the infertiles.

I found this place online for labs:http://www.criver.com/flex_content_area/documents/rm_av_t_storage_incubation_spf_eggs.pdf

You can actually order pre-incubated eggs from them and they come with the warning that you should handle them very carefully as the developing embryo is very fragile and that once they arrive they should be placed in an incubator set to the proper temp for the rest of the incubation period. They actually offer eggs set from day one up until day 17... Of course they have special delivery vans of their own.


Good luck, adeters. As you aren't shipping your eggs, I am sure your viablity will be better.

 

[jab91864]

Glad to hear you're going to continue with incubating. Best of luck !!!

Been through the power outage while a bator full of eggs is cookin... it's really hard on the nerves!!!

Julie

 

[hatchcrazzzy]

i came home and my cat knocked off my bator and the eggs were on the ground i just picked up the non broken eggs and reset them . and they were cold.and about 90% hatched try it

 

[MaransGuy]

Since it was only day 8 I think you should not have a problem. It may delay the hatch a bit but I think you should be okay.

Richard

 

[MaransGuy]

Have you candled again yet? I'm curious to see what happened.

 

[adeters2]

Ok...update.... Out of all my eggs, only one hatched. I'll put a pic up asap. But I guess one is better than none! lol