Temp spike=dead chicks.

[cattbird]

I had a high temp spike yesterday morning/the previous night and my developing eggs nearly all have blood rings - was this caused by the high heat?

There are two, which when candled, the insides are like water with the embryo swimming about, not stuck to the sides - are these dead?

I have one developing egg left. It looks perfectly fine but i'm not sure whether to throw it as IF it hatched it would be alone?

I'm soo cross

I have a cheapy incubator and the temperature seems to spike out of no where. Can anyone shed any light on this?

Thankyou.

 

[walkswithdog]

If you have room, place a jar full of hot water with a very tightly sealed lid in the incubator as a heat sink.

Make sure your incubator is in the MOST temperature stable room in the house. Not next to a window or a vent.

Instability in small bators is generally due to outside environmental swings. Sun in a room, a heater or a vent, a draft. Thermal shifts outside small incubators cause temperature swings within.

Don't give up on the eggs, despite what you see, let them keep running, sometimes they recover, sometimes people mistake bloodrings when it's some odd veining.

If they don't stink and don't weep fluid, let them run. Better to let them run than toss what might be a chance at one more survivor. I had 16 eggs in a bator during a temp spike of 134, and six survivors. A seventh would have had it not pipped through it's own umbilical cord and bled to death.

Eggs are supposed to be resilient little packages and they can be, hang in there.

 

[MariposaMama]

My temps have been up and down all throughout this incubation and I still have life in the eggs. As the previous poster said, don't give up until you're completely sure they are dead because they might just fool you and hatch anyway.