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Our Member's Section => Generally Asked Questions => Topic started by: Purpletaco on May 27, 2009, 11:00:58 AM
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When I went to bed last nite my Kuhl Incubator was working fine. Temp. 99.5 as it has been for 19 days. When I woke up the temp was at 70 degrees. I have no idea how long it was at this temp. I hurried up and put my 3000 eggs in the bottoms of my GQF's and my hatcher to keep them warm. I had them back to temp quickly. My question is this. Is there any chance that the chicks in the eggs are still alive?? If so do I still have to turn them being on day 19?? I broke a couple of the eggs in the shuffle. So I checked them out. The blood was still bright red. But I couldn't be sure if their was any movement in the chicks. I thought one moved but I wasn't for sure. Just curious if any of you have had this problem before. I was going to build a regular hatching room this spring and keep the temp up so if something like this happened I wouldn't lose my chicks. But my wife got hospitalized for a month right before hatching season. So I can't get it done until next year. What do you guys do to remedy this??
Thanks,
curt
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Curt
Have had close to same experience with storms knock out electricity but no where to go with the eggs.
Our night time temp was 75
Cracked door open just a small amount to release gas being released from eggs.
The hatch was set back 3 days .
Hatched 725 out of 1000 Bob White eggs.
They are stronger than i expected with little loss after 2 weeks.
It was a suprise to me i had written off the hatch
Good luck
Larry Lain
www.doublelquailfarms.com
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Should I still rotate the eggs at this point. Today is day 20 and this happened yesterday.
Thanks,
Curt
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Sorry about your luck uo2 What kind of chicks do you have? When is scheduled hatch?
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Ringnecks. The hatch was scheduled for saturday.
Curt
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I once had a similar experience and everything turned out fine. The hatch may be delayed just a bit.
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Same thing happened to my first Bob White hatch (x100). I think I posted a pic in the new member section. It was about day 17(ish) and the electricity went off around 2am. Had nowhere to put them and being a newbie, I never opened the incubator to let them breathe. I was fixated on temperature. ck1 The power wasn't restored until 11am the next morning.
It was a 94% hatch. j1
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Curt, Sure hope the news is good on your hatch.