OMG I might have killed them! Help!

[hennypenny99]

I keep my incubators in my bedroom on my dresser. I have 3 Little Giants - 2 for incubating and one I use just for hatching. Well I have guinea keets hatching right now and my kids carried a bar stool into the bedroom so they could watch. Last night about 11:30pm I turned the eggs. I moved the barstool out of the way and I guess the leg of it was crossing my cord because I unknowingly unplugged my incubator!

In the incubator are guinea eggs on about day 8 and silkie and serama eggs on day 3. I woke up at 4 am really worried about my babies out in the brooder. I couldn't go back to sleep thinking "what if their heat lamp goes out in the night and they all die!" So I get up at 4 o'clock and check on my babies and all is well. Maybe it was esp or mothers intuition (LOL) but I was stressing over the wrong babies.

I woke up at 7 and went to turn my eggs and they were at about 80 degrees. So they have been unplugged for about 7.5 hours. Do you think they will all die? I plugged them right back in. An old man I bought keets from yesterday told me that he had a hen abandon the nest and he didnt know about it until they had been cold for 2 days. He said he put them under another hen and they hatched 2 days late. Hmmmmm.... I'm really worried they will all die.

 

[blueberrychickens]

I think they will be just fine. Maybe hatching a day later than planned. Good luck!

 

[hennypenny99]

Really? Oh I hope so. So the other night when the power went off for 2 hours and I was a nervous wreck covering the incubators with blankets and setting my phone alarm so I could get up if it didn't come back on and run an extention cord from the inverter in my car to the incubators wasn't necessary?

I still have alot to learn. I hope they are tougher than I thought.

 

[crazypetlady]

They will probably just hatch late. Keep the faith.