Power went out. Made my incubator malfunction. Need help/advise.

Skyleen13

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I’ve started incubating 10 eggs 9 days ago. At day 3 of incubation we had a power outage. My incubator went out for 8 hours. When power came back on everything seemed ok. Both temp & humidity came back up to the correct levels. Eggs seemed ok. Temp was at 99.2 & humidity at 50. However, when I candled the eggs on day 8 all but 3 of the eggs didn’t show signs of veins nor could we see a baby. The 3 we could see vaines seemed only to be at day 4 instead of day 8! Checked the temp & was down at 98.2. Was able to get the temp back up but I’m worried that the other eggs died as a result. Help. Could they still be alive & just stunted or dead? How can I tell?
 
Power outages cause incubation delays or a set back. You might have lost a day or 2 in the incubation process. Leave the eggs in for 3 more days then check again for veining. You will experience late hatches from this. Some of the eggs you indicated had no veining is probably infertile, but give it 3 more days to be sure. Make sure your temperature is consistent.
 
Power outages cause incubation delays or a set back. You might have lost a day or 2 in the incubation process. Leave the eggs in for 3 more days then check again for veining. You will experience late hatches from this. Some of the eggs you indicated had no veining is probably infertile, but give it 3 more days to be sure. Make sure your temperature is consistent.
It’s doing much better now. I’ve kept my eye on it. Holding steady at 99.4 with only a .6 fluctuation.
 
Power outages cause incubation delays or a set back. You might have lost a day or 2 in the incubation process. Leave the eggs in for 3 more days then check again for veining. You will experience late hatches from this. Some of the eggs you indicated had no veining is probably infertile, but give it 3 more days to be sure. Make sure your temperature is consistent.
Update: All but 3 of the eggs survived. All others died. I checked them all & everyone but 1 was fertile & developing. Red line around the egg. Burst blood vessels. 😢😭
At least I was able to save 3.
 

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