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Duck eggs and temp

16 years ago

My kindergearten class is hatching eggs for the second time. Last hatch went great and the students did wonderful. This year all was going well till I came in today and checked on the temp of the eggs. We have 16 days left till I remove the turner and up to 3 days for them to hatch.

My question is:

The temp has been steady until right before I left school at 4:00 p.m. Upon my arrival at 7:30 this morning the temp was at 108. The temp as been running right at 99 - 100. Are my 12 eggs going to be okay? or are they dead? I was going to candle the eggs with the class tomorrow wednesday after they have been in there and stable for 11 days. I told them that something or someone has messed with them and now we will have to wait till Monday April the 14th. Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

Comments (2)

billie_ladybug
16 years ago
I would hope that the temp just changed just before you noticed, of course, that is probably not what happened. I have always let it go anyway and hoped for the best. I have about a dozen ducklings that hatched just fine and we are still waiting on brothers/sisters. I would probably candle as planned and maybe you get lucky, they are ok.

Good Luck
Billie
wsi_kt
Original Author
16 years ago
I will candle on Monday. But the temp when I left school was at 99-100 at 4:00p.m. So I do not know exactly when or how it reached 108 but it had to be around 10 to 12 hours it was at that temp. I did though quickly get it back to its proper temp of 99 -100.

Thanks

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