What's the longest power outage and still get a hatch?

As soon as I logged off of here last night, my power started blinking and Wham shut off. I have a sportsman full of eggs and the power was off all night. I need to know if anyone has had power off for over 6 hours and still had success or should I just start over? I could really cry right now because I just did my candling and know it is full of little babies in there.

The majority of the eggs are on day 10, the rest were just set on Monday this week.

Jody

 

Yeah, jaynie I hear ya on the low temp causing development problems. I'm concerned about that too, but I don't think I can give up on them yet. There was just so many little developing peeps in there, I dread the worst. I think I'll wait till day 14 candling and make the decision then. That will give me a couple days to gather eggs again.

sara - I had 2 brooders of baby chicks too. I quickly put them in a brooder together for body heat and dh had the fireplace cooking so that helped them through the night. Gosh, I was so worried about them too but they made it thru ok. Thank goodness it wasn't our normal cold winter night last night. I wonder what happened that everything went off? I always feel like the power company is showing us who is in control. un But I did see an ambulance go by shortly after it went off, so maybe a crash or something. The flooding was pretty bad here.

Jody

 

tiffany - It got down to around 70.

Thanks Chris - that is a good idea and one I haven't thought of, so I'll keep that in mind for next time. I know there will be a next time, which is really frustrating. I thought about running them out to my broodies, but it is just so many eggs and I really didn't think it would be off all night. Plus we're in the middle of a storm, so not the most ideal weather to be running around in during the middle of the night.

Jody