OMG!! My mom turned up the temp UPDATE possible pip!!!

[GJ_Kate]

I just got home from work and my mother (who lives with us and is 82) told me that when she looked at the bator a little while ago, the temperature said 70 degrees... So, she tells me "I turned it up".

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! She looked at the HUMIDITY reading!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just checked the temp and from what I can best tell it's about 101 or 102 in there.

I immediately turned it down and unplugged one of the red plugs (LG bator). Holy crap-o-la!!!

There are 4 bourbon red turkey eggs in there, my FIRST hatch!!!!

I turned it down, but didn't really know how far to turn since I hadn't messed with it for about a month!

I feel like crying, but my mom's already really upset about it all. I just calmed down, got myself a Mike's Hard Lemonade and got on here..... But this is what I'd like to do to my mother right now

UPDATE: DH and I think we see one or two of the eggs rocking a little bit and a pip on one. Its in a bad spot to be able to see it well. It looks like a tiny peice of shell on the underside of the wide end in hanging down a little bit. But we can't see it well enough to tell if there's a hole...... driving me crazy!!!!!!

 

[Emmalion]

You're going to be fine. Those are not horrible temps.

 

[Lifesong Farm]

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Don't be too mad at the poor dear. She was just trying to help. That said first instinct is to beat the helper I know.

They should be ok. I have had temps spike and the chicks still hatched.

 

[Chicken Chickita]

Please keep us posted. Hopefully all will be well and you'll have some adorable little fuzzybutts very soon.

 

[FireTigeris]

Breath, They will likely be ok, that's within range for living things, over 104 is trouble for a length of time, (biologically speaking)

 

[wpalmisano]

101-102 should be fine, because the internal temperature of the egg will stay a little lower for a few hours. They say an internal egg temperature of 105 for any amount of time is the kill mark. Cross your fingers.

 

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

i'm sorry, must be very frustrating. But those temps are not so high as to cause damage. i wouldn't worry about it.

 

[Cetawin]

They should be fine but I have a question....why are the red plug still in? My bator said to remove them at lockdown and I always did so i was wondering ?

 

[rancher hicks]

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Can't say about turkeys but I just finished a very good hatch for chicks and the temp was 100.0 or higher through most of it. Also I plugged the vent hole to up the humidity off and on near the end. The hatch started early (tues) and finished some time this morning which is day 21. 21/23 not to bad. I have a Gen 1588.

The thing with these thermometers I think is you have to figure where they REALLY are. I don't use the glass kind. I have the digital I bought with the incubator.

I guess this has nothing to do with OP's plight but I expect for a short time no harm is done.

Hope all goes well

rancher

 

[GJ_Kate]

I'm pretty sure I've read on here that to help up the humidity, you put the red plugs in at lockdown. Especially for me because I live in very very dry area (we're talking like 10%), so for me to get it up to 70% for my turkeys, I actually had to close up a bunch of the holes!

I'm really more upset at the fact that she made my heart stop when she told me what she did!