Power outage on day 5!

[Kris5902]

The power went out early this morning on day five of my hatch. My incubator temperature dropped to 65 and has only gotten up to 85 in the two hours that I’ve had it plugged into an inverter and deep cycle battery. I’m not sure how long the power outage will be for. But the room temperature has dropped quite low and I think that’s why it’s not warming up properly. It’s a little giant circulated air incubator. Thoughts and suggestions? How much damage do you think has been done?

 

[MGG]

Can you cover it with a blanket maybe? Hoping your power comes back on soon.
I think you will still have some hatch. There may be a couple losses though

 

[Kris5902]

Was just doing that! I had to walk to the store for feed which I now need to walk the rest of the way home... my eggs and chicks are in a building with (usually) proper power

 

[Kris5902]

We are at about 7 hours now...

 

[MGG]

Do you have it plugged in right now? Any generators or gas stations you can plug it in at? You could try wrapping it in foil maybe, I'm not familiar with that type of incubator so I don't know how well that would work. You could try putting some hot hands pouches in there.