Stupid Power & Lockdown starts!! GREAT UPDATE!!! NOW WITH PICTURES!

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Well, we went out with some friends on Saturday night and around 9:00 my daughter calls to tell us the power is out. Like the loving dad I am
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the first thing I think about is "MY EGGS!!!" Well, we were without power for about 3-4 hours. When we got home the eggs were down to about 90°. We quickly built a fire and put the eggs over by the fire and got the eggs up to around 95°.

Well, today was Day 1 of lockdown! Wish us luck, we might need it!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!go chickies go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i hope they are all fine...
i'd like to say that doesn't seem like too bad of a drop.. but i don't have any experience to back that statement...
good luck!
 
Thanks everybody.

I put in 16 chicken eggs (2 decided early on to not progress), so at this point I have 5 BO, 3 RIR, 4 Speckled Sussex & 2 BR. I also have 21 quail eggs that should hatch at the same time.

Bil
 
GOOD UPDATE!!

As of right now we have 9 chickens that have hatched (3 BO, 3 RIR & 3 SS) with 4 of the remaining 5 eggs piping!!!

And we have 14 out of the 21 quail eggs that have hatched!!!

I think for a big power failure, that's not a bad outcome!!

Bil
 
Final count:

13 out of 14 Chickens hatched
14 out of 21 quails hatched.

I'll take these percentages with a homemade incubator and the power going out!!!

Bil
 

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