Oh no storm coming and eggs in bator

[mstricer]

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[bargain]

Just a hello to all of you and let you know I'm thinking and praying for each of you. Now, I'm certainly not advising to do this and won't be responsible for results from it. But what if you had a very large soup pot, heated water on your gas stove, put a lid on it upside down turned it off completedly, Move to kitchen counter so as not to cause a fire, separate incubator from the lid of the pot by a slab of styrofoam - Say maybe the top of a portable cooler (so it wouldn't over heat)and watchthe temp in the incubator and kept the incubator warm this way. (Cover with towels etc as needed" And make sure the base is a sturdy one - strong styrofoam and large enough so it would not buckle or crack under the incubator. I suppose it could work.. It might!..There may be risks involved, but if faced with a long term blackout, I'd try it....I've never tried this trick. I would repeat with another reboil in another soup pan as needed...

I'm blessed with an old gas stove - Crosley - model 1960's and plan to keep it forever as it has no electronic ignition. So I know I could use the oven if needed as a fail safe should our generator give out or it be a very long storm.

What do you think of this possibility?

 

[mstricer]

Thank you Bargain all went well for me here in Ohio. The worst of it started last night into this morning we got a lot of ice and it's blowing snownig like crazy now. Bators still on and good.
I think that would be a great possibilty I have a newer oven that requires electric start.

 

[CallyB57]

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Thanks for that tip about the baby food jars...we have a lot of power outages in the rural area I live in and I have tried to think of things I could do - short of putting the eggs in my bra, of course. I have 4 blue eggs in the incubator right now and they are at 10 days, all candled and all the chicks are developing, and wintry precip is forecast for Friday. I would sure hate to lose them at this point, so thanks again for a great tip!

 

[CallyB57]

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I don't know about putting them in the oven - did you mean with the oven OFF? I try to remember that if I run warm water over my wrist and can't feel it, then the water must be at around 98 degrees...a tad warmer - just where you can barely feel the warmth should be right on - or close enough for egg warmth. Have you ever heard of that - I hope I'm not wrong about that. I do know that when I candled my eggs, I could barely tell they were warmer than my hand temperature when I took them out of the bator.
God bless us all and our eggs and chicks with these bad storms...good luck to all of you who are having such tough weather blowing through.

Oops! I'm not trying to tell you to put the eggs in warm water, I'm just trying to say what I heard about judging temperature.

 

[Vanessabuffsnsilkies]

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My power went out last night for about 45 minutes. Put towels and blankets over the incubators. It came back on and when I checked the temp on the hatcher this morning it was 105. One pipped today which is day 20. There's only 5 eggs in there thank goodness and they are from my chickens. Would have really been upset if they were eggs I bought. My aunt is still without power in Stark Co Ohio. There are 38,000 in the dark right now in Stark Co.

 

[mstricer]

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My power went out last night for about 45 minutes. Put towels and blankets over the incubators. It came back on and when I checked the temp on the hatcher this morning it was 105. One pipped today which is day 20. There's only 5 eggs in there thank goodness and they are from my chickens. Would have really been upset if they were eggs I bought. My aunt is still without power in Stark Co Ohio. There are 38,000 in the dark right now in Stark Co.

I'm in Ashland luckily ours didn't go out. Are they in Canton?

 

[Vanessabuffsnsilkies]

Yes the majority is Canton area. I'm east of Canton and we had horrible ice yesterday and last night. Trees were breaking and falling over. This morning it all had melted on the trees and the wind was whipping. If the wind had been blowing last night it would have been much worse.

Just checked the hatcher again and 3 out of the 5 pipped. Was worried since I didn't know how long the temp was up so high!

 

[bwyatt]

Power went off twice for about 2 hours each time early this morning. I have 55 eggs in the incubators.

I keep a deep cycle 12 volt marine battery and inverter handy. Only lost a couple of degrees while hooking up.

If you hatch lots of chicks, it's cheap insurance. Battery and inverter less than $100.

Good luck folks.

Bill