Power outage.

[stephmarie333]

Hi! I'm looking for advice.

I am on day 3 of incubation. My power went out due to a storm about a half hour ago. Power company said it could be hours.

I have a generator I could get running but I would rather use that for fridges and freezers of need be. I also have a greenhouse that is about 85/90 degrees right now. Do yall think it would be ok to just move the incubators to the greenhouse? Or should I try to get them plugged in asap?

 

[sourland]

Try wrapping them with blankets to temporarily conserve temperature. If the outage becomes excessive, I would crank up the generator.

 

[PennelopeSpeaks]

I personally don't have any experience but I've read on some other threads that you can hear water bottles up and put them around it,

 

[stephmarie333]

Thank you for the responses. I just went ahead and had my husband hook up the generator. Their temp was plummiting and I would have been too worried letting it go any longer. Hopefully they will still be viable to hatch

 

[PennelopeSpeaks]

 

[Mountain Roost]

my incubators get the generator first and then when talk about what else might need it. Fridges and freezers can wait a couple hours; not the babies. lol

 

[stephmarie333]

Update: thankfully we are hatching despite the outage that occurred one hatched so far and three others are pipped