Power outage!

[Canuck88]

Help! We lost power 30 minutes ago. The estimated time for the crews to get it back on is 5:45 (1hr 45min from now).

Of course I have eggs in the incubator. It is day 7. I have a fire going in the wood stove, should I unplug the incubator and bring it near the wood stove? Or will they be ok without power for a couple hours??

I’m so worried!

 

[aart]

Just wrap a towel or blanket around the bator, don't cover up any vents.
They should be fine.
What kind of incubator do you have?

 

[HuffleClaw]

They should be okay. Remember sometimes momma hens get off the nest for a while.

If you’re extra worried, putting them near the wood stove won’t hurt anything. Just make sure that you monitor the temperature and they don’t get too hot.


You can also wrap a towel or something similar around your incubator to help hold in heat.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Reading through the following link will tell you how to proceed.
http://www.brinsea.com/Articles/Advice/PowerOff.aspx
In the interim, do you have a means of warming bricks, rocks or boil water?

 

[Canuck88]

It’s back on! Thanks guys! The temp was at 30 degrees Celsius when it came back on so I don’t think that’s too bad..

 

[Canuck88]

Thanks again for all of your quick replies, I will have a better game plan if we happen to lose power again! Knock on wood we don’t, this was a fairly spontaneous hatch but I second guessed myself as soon as I put the eggs in the incubator as we tend to have rain/wind storms in December.

This outage was actually due to a huge fire in town which is really sad, I think I read that a plywood mill is on fire.