PLEASE HELP!

[Akira8604]

I have seven day eggs in my incubator. The friggen incubator got unplugged some time I guess yesterday now and I just found out 5 mins ago. I wasn't able to do anything to keep them warm so they were cold when I plugged them back in. Are they all going to die? There were definitely some that had started developing. I'm so heartbroken. This is the first time I have ever attempted to hatch eggs from my own birds.

 

[Lemon-Drop]

Not sure what to do or if they will survive, just trying to bump this to the top of the list sorry.

 

[Akira8604]

I appreciate that, thank you!

 

[JustAChickenLoverOverHere]

What did the humidity and temp get to? If you know? If you don’t that’s all right.

 

[JustAChickenLoverOverHere]

@MGG @CHlCKEN @aart

 

[Akira8604]

I'm not sure but the eggs were cold to the touch. There was condensation in the incubator. That's all I know.

 

[aart]

I'm not sure but the eggs were cold to the touch.

You don't have a thermometer in there that you check when you plugged it back in?
Only time will tell.

 

[Coops Dad]

I had 22 eggs in our incubator for a week when the power went out during the Snowpocalypse here in Texas last February. We had 15-30 minutes of electricity followed by 1 to 5 hours of blackouts. I let them percolate and 15 of them hatched. One died due to an umbilical hernia that became infected. The remaining 14 are 2 weeks old and growing like weeds.

 

[AnotherChickenLover]

I have seven day eggs in my incubator. The friggen incubator got unplugged some time I guess yesterday now and I just found out 5 mins ago. I wasn't able to do anything to keep them warm so they were cold when I plugged them back in. Are they all going to die? There were definitely some that had started developing. I'm so heartbroken. This is the first time I have ever attempted to hatch eggs from my own birds.

They have a chance. You see during the power outage in Houston, my incubator unplugged , or stopped, and they were in there disconnected for THREE days, we decided to take a chance on em, and they ended hatching! We now have another 2 chicks in our flock.

 

[Akira8604]

I had 22 eggs in our incubator for a week when the power went out during the Snowpocalypse here in Texas last February. We had 15-30 minutes of electricity followed by 1 to 5 hours of blackouts. I let them percolate and 15 of them hatched. One died due to an umbilical hernia that became infected. The remaining 14 are 2 weeks old and growing like weeds.

That's reassuring, thank you.