Temp drop last night

[Momto6kiddos]

I'm worried about the grocery quail egg that I put on lockdown yesterday. During the night, at some point between midnight and 6am, the temp of my incubator dropped to 97F. When I got up at 6am I immediately started bringing the temp up but I'm not sure how long it was that low (the house got unusually cold last night). Will a temp that low for up to 6 hours kill my chick? What should I do?

 

[R2elk]

I'm worried about the grocery quail egg that I put on lockdown yesterday. During the night, at some point between midnight and 6am, the temp of my incubator dropped to 97F. When I got up at 6am I immediately started bringing the temp up but I'm not sure how long it was that low (the house got unusually cold last night). Will a temp that low for up to 6 hours kill my chick? What should I do?

The 97°F temperature will not hurt your egg at all. Some recommend to lower the temperature to 98°F for lockdown.

Be very careful when adjusting the incubator in this situation. As the house warms back up, so will the incubator and you will need to undo your adjustments in order to prevent the incubator from getting too hot.

 

[Momto6kiddos]

The 97°F temperature will not hurt your egg at all. Some recommend to lower the temperature to 98°F for lockdown.

Be very careful when adjusting the incubator in this situation. As the house warms back up, so will the incubator and you will need to undo your adjustments in order to prevent the incubator from getting too hot.

I'm so glad that my egg should be fine!

I've been checking the incubator like every 5 minutes for that very reason. Right now it's holding steady at 99.

 

[MGG]

Your egg will be fine. I had my whole incubator full of eggs drop to 92 overnight and the eggs all still hatched.

 

[Kiki]

I'm worried about the grocery quail egg that I put on lockdown yesterday. During the night, at some point between midnight and 6am, the temp of my incubator dropped to 97F. When I got up at 6am I immediately started bringing the temp up but I'm not sure how long it was that low (the house got unusually cold last night). Will a temp that low for up to 6 hours kill my chick? What should I do?

No it will not kill the chick.
It should be just fine.

When is hatch day?

 

[Kiki]

I'm so glad that my egg should be fine!

I've been checking the incubator like every 5 minutes for that very reason. Right now it's holding steady at 99.

Keep a close eye on it...the temp.

 

[Momto6kiddos]

No it will not kill the chick.
It should be just fine.

When is hatch day?

I think Monday. I don't know if I should count the day it was set as day 1 or 0. It went in on 1/24 so today is day 15 or 16, depending on whether I count set day as day 0 or 1.

 

[Kiki]

I think Monday. I don't know if I should count the day it was set as day 1 or 0. It went in on 1/24 so today is day 15 or 16, depending on whether I count set day as day 0 or 1.

We all count different.
I could day one the day I put them in the bator.
I would say your hatch day is Monday.