Power Outage On Day 12

[almanquail]

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?

 

[sourland]

Keep them warm. Cooling would make little sense. You did the correct thing.

 

[Tex452]

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.

 

[almanquail]

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”

 

[Ridgerunner]

Do you have a link to that article? It could be an interesting read. I'm often interested in articles like that. It's the details that can get you.

I've had a few broody hens go to the wrong nest when incubating. I never know for sure how long they have been off but occasionally the eggs were very cold to the touch before I put her back on the correct nest. I haven't had any bad effects from that but it hasn't happened often.

My concern is that unless you know exactly what to do you may do more harm than good.

Several years back Brinsea was offering an incubator with a programmable daily cooling cycle. Not the same as you are talking about. They used a study on goose eggs to justify it. I saw that as more of a marketing ploy than something I'd want to try. But that is just my opinion.