Temperatures varying....have I hard boiled my eggs?

[kelebek1977]

Hi,

I hope I can get a bit of help with a temp issue I have please.

Got fertilised eggs yesterday (from a neighbour). I'd set my mini incubator running the night previous at a temperature of 37.7 and filled the well with water.
I put the eggs in yesterday and added a mini humidity/temperature meter. The eggs had been in the incubator two hours before I realised the temperature on the mini meter read 47.1 degreesC!

I quickly tried to reduce the temp on the incubator to stabilise it and hopefully get a matched reading. I also popped in a childs thermometer and that was reading a few degrees lower than the mini meter but higher than the incubator. So I'm stuck.

Have I maybe fried the eggs on day one if the mini meter reading was correct at 47.1degC? Or will I hopefully have a chance. ?

I seem to have stabilised the reading on the incubator along with the mini meter and thermometer (give or take a just a few celsius between the three).

Should I just wait until candling day next week and hope for the best?

Any help is much appreciated.

Thank you
Linda

 

[nchls school]

Hi,

I hope I can get a bit of help with a temp issue I have please.

Got fertilised eggs yesterday (from a neighbour). I'd set my mini incubator running the night previous at a temperature of 37.7 and filled the well with water.
I put the eggs in yesterday and added a mini humidity/temperature meter. The eggs had been in the incubator two hours before I realised the temperature on the mini meter read 47.1 degreesC!

I quickly tried to reduce the temp on the incubator to stabilise it and hopefully get a matched reading. I also popped in a childs thermometer and that was reading a few degrees lower than the mini meter but higher than the incubator. So I'm stuck.

Have I maybe fried the eggs on day one if the mini meter reading was correct at 47.1degC? Or will I hopefully have a chance. ?

I seem to have stabilised the reading on the incubator along with the mini meter and thermometer (give or take a just a few celsius between the three).

Should I just wait until candling day next week and hope for the best?

Any help is much appreciated.

Thank you
Linda

Sorry. At 116 F. the eggs are ruined. It would be a miracle for them not to be.

 

[EricaJ]

so sorry to hear about this. I had a temp spike after a power outage--lost all of the embyros.
Mince the internal temp increases above 102-104 the embryo is dead. They can handle a drop much better than an increase. At the temp your incubator climbed to I'd say your eggs are most likely dead. If you're not sure just candle them, but I have never seen them survive about 104 f.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Sorry. At 116 F. the eggs are ruined. It would be a miracle for them not to be.

xs 2

You could give them 3 or 4 days and candle, but unless your thermometers are way off....I wouldn't expect to see anything. What kind of eggs were they?

 

[kelebek1977]

Hi thanks for the replies,

I have 3 black pekin and 4 cream crested legbars. I just candled one of each breed. Here's photos. The legbar egg was much harder to photograph, sorry. I'll candle again at day 7. I'm so gutted!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Hi thanks for the replies,

I have 3 black pekin and 4 cream crested legbars. I just candled one of each breed. Here's photos. The legbar egg was much harder to photograph, sorry. I'll candle again at day 7. I'm so gutted!

That's why I asked what kind, some eggs can be hard to tell until later. Sorry you are having this experience.

 

[kelebek1977]

Thanks again for your help. I'll update you again on day 7. x

 

[kelebek1977]

A little early to candle the eggs but WHOOP WHOOP WE HAVE LIFE!!!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

A little early to candle the eggs but WHOOP WHOOP WE HAVE LIFE!!!

Excellent! Good luck.

 

[nchls school]

Yeah! Glad to be wrong.