- Sep 22, 2009
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I just started incubating a new batch of duck eggs and did the dumb thing of setting it all up with too little time to make sure the temperature was stable and just under 100 before taking off for six hours. When I came back, the temperature had gotten up to 106. So, what I'm wondering is, do I have to just accept the fact I screwed up bad, get rid of this batch of eggs and start again or is that a small enough time early enough that it probably didn't do any serious damage?
To make this decision even more complicated, this batch of eggs is going to live in a classroom at my daughter's school and be a class project for taking care of them from incubation through the first three weeks. I had already warned them that not all the eggs hatch and that not all the ducklings survive, but I'd hate to stack the deck against them by me having screwed up right in the beginning.
Normally I'd just start over, it's not that big of a deal. But I had put 20 eggs in the incubator, and in order to time it well for the eggs to most likely hatch when kids are around (and to get a new set of eggs from my ducks ready for hatching), it would put back incubating time a week.
I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has had a similar problem and how it turned out -- Rick
To make this decision even more complicated, this batch of eggs is going to live in a classroom at my daughter's school and be a class project for taking care of them from incubation through the first three weeks. I had already warned them that not all the eggs hatch and that not all the ducklings survive, but I'd hate to stack the deck against them by me having screwed up right in the beginning.
Normally I'd just start over, it's not that big of a deal. But I had put 20 eggs in the incubator, and in order to time it well for the eggs to most likely hatch when kids are around (and to get a new set of eggs from my ducks ready for hatching), it would put back incubating time a week.
I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has had a similar problem and how it turned out -- Rick