UNPLUGGED FOR 6 HOURS......HELP!!

[Cpolanco3]

~~ I need help and advice.... See, I had them come out and clean my carpets today. Well, the guy tripped something and I haven't been able to get the electric back up against that side of the living room and reseting my electric panel isn't helping. I just realized about 5 minutes ago that my incubator was plugged in on that side. The babies were unplugged since about noon. Does this mean that I need to toss them? I'm so upset! Claudia

 

[sourland]

Do not toss them. Plug into a working outlet, and all should be fine. If viable the eggs should still hatch. Possibly they may be delayed a short bit, but should still hatch.

 

[Cpolanco3]

okay. I moved them to the kitchen as soon as I realized my mistake.... they'll be there until tomorrow when I move them back to their undisturbed spot. Thank you for your quick reply.

Claudia

 

[Cpolanco3]

I candled all the eggs tonight and i can clearly see that i have progress in 2 of the eggs, but in the other 13 there isn't anything. It just looks like regular eggs. i don't see anything at all.

How depressing.

claudia

 

[SIMZ]

How long have they been incubating? My advice would be to leave them until the end until they start to stink. I've had brown eggs that I couldn't see anything from candling, but they still hatched. Only at lock down do I toss completely clear eggs -- and then only if I'm absolutely sure!

As far as the power being off, I wouldn't worry about that affecting the eggs either way. My broody hen once left eggs for a full 24 hours (fighting with another broody over her eggs) and they still hatched - just a day late.

Best of luck!

 

[Cpolanco3]

They've been in since about 10pm Friday dec 6th. They don't stink either.