Moving gravid females and eggs in the bator.

I'm pretty sure I remember a post from Tim Bailey (muddoc) about his power going out for several hours, but the eggs in the 'bator hatched just fine and on schedule.

Depending on how many clutches you should have in the 'bator at that time, you could pack them in to a cooler chest to help keep the temps stable. You could even use a piece of flexwatt to warm up the cooler chest before you transfer the eggs.

I don't think I'd try to run any heat off a power converter during the actual move. You won't really have a way to test it, and it would be disastrous if it got too hot.

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Originally Posted by West Coast Jungle

Davids right they will be fine. Last year another member here Chris Collett had a surprise clutch of eggs, he called me worried that he had no bator. He brought them to me about 30- 40 miles away and i put them in my incubator. He set up his own bator and came back for them several weeks later. They all hatched fine even though they been through multiple car rides without any temp control during travel.

I would takes them out of the bator, move the bator to the new location and then bring eggs. As mentioned they are alot tougher then you might think. Also if the egg box is sealed the temp change should be real gradual. In nature things dont stay perfect like in a bator;)

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Thanks Raul, I'm glad yet another person has experienced this and it was fine.