Share your power outage experiences - is there hope?

[drafthorse39]

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Wow that is amazing! Yay! What day were yours on when the power went?

Around day 16

 

[Billjr]

Just a heads up for everyone. I hunt and have used those hand warmers to keep warm. They need oxygen to work, so they will eat up oxygen in the incubatior. I would not cover the incubator if using the warmers.

 

[IggiMom]

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Yes. I did not know that, and it may have been my problem.

However, I do still have some nice little chicks. Just not very many of them.

Catherine

 

[One Acre Wonder Farm]

I candled last night and could only find one quitter! Phew!!!!

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

My incubator is a fridge outside. http://cmfarm.us/Cam_2.html My longest outage was 24 hours in a winter storm. It was about day 17. Most hatched.

In an outage you are better off leaving the incubator be. Any help you give it will hurt more than help.

 

[IggiMom]

I said I would look up in Storey's what to do in a power outage. He suggests having a UPS available. I do have one but it seems to work very poorly, if at all.

In any event, you are right Storey's says that it is better to let them cool and start them up again than to try to keep them warm.

Wish I had thought to read this before our power outage.

He also says that the more valuable the eggs are that you are incubating, the more likely a power outage is.

Catherine

 

[One Acre Wonder Farm]

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isn't that the truth! I've never had the power go out while I was incubating my own eggs

 

[IrishBoy]

Day 13 and we had a power cut form 6 - 11, but still got 4/6 hatch rate , temp dropped slowly as opposed to suddenly !