Temp suddenly keeps spiking - HELP!!!!

[M0therGoose]

It is day 25 with my goose eggs and i have had fairly even temperture and humidity levels all along. However, when i woke up this morning and checked the temp (as i always do) it was on 103!! So i took the lid off for a while (it's a little hovabator still-air), closed the lid and turned it down quite a bit. Then i checked again about 2 hours later and it is was at 104!!! What the heck is going on????? does anyone have any idea??? and do you think it could have killed the goslings????

Thanks.

 

[sonew123]

The temp goes up the further the chicks are in the eggs-thats what I read-juast keep turning it down a touch and keep the humidty up there

 

[Fudgie]

I agree, as the chick/duckling/gosling comes to the end of his/her time in the egg, the temperature rises therefore raising the temp in the incubator.

All you can do is monitor it and turn it down a bit. U sure you twisted the correct way and did not accidentally turn it up. Mine seems backwards to me. I would open it up and let the eggs cool down a bit then when the temp drops below 99, replace the lid and turn it till you see the light go off and hear a click. THEN, monitor the temp. It should stay around 99 then

 

[M0therGoose]

thanks for the advice. do you think they are ok?

 

[M0therGoose]

and could it mean one of them is close to hatching?