Power Outage On Day 12

almanquail

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Greetings,
I was searching some threads here, some of them mentioned to cool down the eggs during power outage in the early stages of incubation, I had a power outage at day 12 for about 10 hours, I actually did the opposite by wrapping the incubator with a blanket, by the time the power came back on the incubator showed 27 degrees celsius when restarted.
So in the first two weeks of incubation, in case of power outage do we need to cool the eggs or keep them warm?
 
My little grandson turned the switch off to the socket that I had mine plugged in, I’m not sure but I think it was off close to 24 hours, I just let if finish out because there wasn’t but 5 days left, it was a really good hatch.
The power went out for 2 hours on another occasion and there wasn’t any problems.
 
Keep them warm. Cooling would make little sense. You did the correct thing.
Searching online also suggested cooling the eggs, I would like to hear more about this issue.
This is from Google search:
If an incubator loses power during the early development stages (first 14 days), the best action depends on the outage length: for outages over two hours, quickly cool the eggs to between 41F-68F (eg, in a refrigerator) to suspend development. For shorter outages, avoid leaving the eggs in the(80.6F-95F) “zone of disproportionate development”
 

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