Power Cut - How bad is this?

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Hello, I am incubating 24 various bantams and 10 quail eggs which I brought over from UK in my hand baggage. I live in a very hot tropical place in the middle of the Indian Ocean. This is the first time I have incubated eggs, borrowed an incubator which was running v hot and eventually got the temperature to acceptable limit before putting in the eggs. This morning we had a violent storm and lost electricity for 4 hours. The temperature dropped to 30C. From all you people with vast experience out there can you please tell me if this will ruin all chances of a hatch? I so hope not. I went to such lengths to get those eggs! Today is day 16 so I will turn the quail eggs for the last time tonight.
 
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It should not be too bad, i had a powercut once, and the incubator went down to 29 celcius, but i still had 4 out of 4 eggs hatching.
 
Am I rite in beleuveing them animals should not be over there???
 
If they survived flight and eggs are fertile you should be OK 4h is nothing.Good luck with incubation :-)17 :-)99
 
Many of us have had worse so take the chance, carry on and don't give up hope. They may take a day or two more to hatch.
 
I had a bantam leave her nest where she was incubating 8 eggs and went to get food only to come back to the wrong nest! By the time I found them they were stone cold, must have been at least 6 hours. Anyways 7 out of 8 hatched. Don't worry too much :-) I wish you luck for your hatch!
 
Good luck..I would say never give up...they will always surprise you! ;)
 
Had one quail hatch yesterday morning and nothing since - I expect some of the bantams to hatch in 48 hours. It would be good to get one more quail at least. Thanks for the positive thoughts.
 
hi, i think things wil be ok, a few weeks ago my son turned off my incubator that contained 30-40 fertile eggs, from 4 different settings, in the morning i didnt discover this until about 6 in the evening the temperature was about 20 oc and i am very happy to say that out of all the sets of eggs only 2 eggs didnt hatch, so dont worry :D
 
We had the same experience as French chickens. She left the nestbox and returned to the wrong box to sit on the wrong eggs. They were stone cold to the touch but all hatched about a day late.
 
Ok cone on then let us no were they successfully hatchings after the power cut???
 
Hello! Welcome to the forum.
It sounds okay. they should still hatch. to prevent these from happeing again, have one of those large attachable batteries.
 
Sorry for not getting back internet here not great and frequent power cuts BUT .... I did get 5 eggs to hatch and very strange in that there were various bantam eggs but what did hatch were all Rhode Island Reds - I am told by the supplier they are standard size! So I guess that is a success and that despite the power cut I did get some to hatch but unfortunately most of the eggs either were 'lost' in the transportation or not fertile in the first place but I am happy with what I have got. Will hav to wait now for next trip over the seas to get some hopfully fertile bantam eggs - really like Sebrights and Dutch.
 
Perhaps the bantam eggs, being much smaller, are more prone to damage with a temperature drop and perhaps transportation than standard eggs. Ours were standard eggs about 58 grammes. Did you leave the eggs to settle pointy end down for 24 hours before putting them in the incubator?
 
You know I did not leave them to settle for 24 hours (pointy end down) before putting them in the incubator - they had been travelling for over 24 hours and were already 6 days old so I guess I did rush that. Learning curve that I will remember for my next attempt - many thanks
 
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