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Post by herb on May 3, 2010 11:06:23 GMT -6
The storm knocked my power out for over 10 hours Saturday. I had 18 pheasant eggs in the Brinsea and a boatload of chicken and turkey eggs in the sportsman. I did drop a folded towel over the Brinsea. I decided to wait before tossing all the eggs and crying. Last night the pheasants in the Brinsea began hatching., There were 7 live babies in it this morning. That's 7/18 so far from shipped eggs and almost 11 hours with no power. I'm happy. Now if the GQF will not be full of rotten eegs, that will be great.
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verloncox
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Post by verloncox on May 3, 2010 11:38:22 GMT -6
I am in the same boat over here herb, I am about to lose a ton of turkey and goose eggs (you would be sick if you knew how many). The temperature dropped down in the low 80's. I will give them two days past hatching date, today, but after that I am going to have to toss them all and clean the incubator. That power outage destroyed me I think. I am glad that you got a decent hatch off of your pheasants, now keep your fingers crossed for me! Just fyi 54 turkey eggs were scheduled to hatch today........................
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Post by Timbo on May 3, 2010 11:38:26 GMT -6
Thats great Herb, I got my fingers crossed for you and verlon.
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Post by herb on May 3, 2010 11:53:43 GMT -6
Yeah, that suxs. I thought I might lose my new hatched turkey pouts too. All I could come up with was a 17w florescent bulb that my emergency radio would run on its inverter. They crammed up against that. I not sure it made enough heat to matter but they sure clung to it.
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verloncox
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Post by verloncox on May 3, 2010 13:17:13 GMT -6
I will tell you what helped my baby chicks and I hadn't ever even heard about it before but I learned from it. When we lost power I took a whole bunch of those 10 hour hand warmers that I had left over and put them under a towel for them. It worked great I guess cause I didn't lose any of them and they were in a huddle around them. I am definitely keeping that in mind for the winter time.
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