For a whole day, yesterday, I had warm and fuzzy feelings. We were incubating eggs and we would be hearing the heart melting "cheep cheep" that only chicks can speak.
Last night we arrived home to discover our incubator heater had spiked and now the internal temp was 110 degrees. It is supposed to be 100 degrees and a variation more than .5 in either direction is as far from 100 as it can get. These eggs were toast.
I am sad and almost didn't want to share this "bad news" but y'all are here for the reality of farm life. These things happen.
ZinFarmerChefJeff and I came to the same conclusion as to the "why". It took over 9 hours for the eggs to come up to the temperature of 100, but the heater apparatus was "set" to heat, so once the eggs reached that 100 degrees, the very un-user-friendly, non fuzzy-logic low tech heating unit just kept cranking out the heat.
Today's plan: load up the incubator with the eggs at the same time (around 11pm) and then tomorrow during the day, leave the office several times to come home and check on them. I am also going to see if I can find a better heating source as this one is so wonky that it is a miracle the damn thing even works!
I will continue to say I am sorry, thank you and farewell to the little eggs that were on their way to becoming chicks, but didn't.
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