Egg Emergency!!!!

[Jay_Bunny]

Because of their tumble out of the incubator and sitting at 70 for possibly a few hours will they delay their hatch date? They are on day 42. Only 19 days left. Should I cut the eggs at day 60? Or just wait and see what they do?

[PghBall]

Hoping you end up with a few healthy little ones in the end! You did a bang up job with that torn egg. Great advice was given as well. It was unfortunate that it happened, but is a good thread for us other newbies when it comes to clutches! Thanks for sharing with us!

[muddoc]

Water is condensing on the inside of the plastic wrap. I'm glad its holding in moisture but is this okay for the egg?

I think the condensation is a testament to how well the seal is, which I think is good. The only bad thing I could think of in regards to this, would be not allowing the egg to breathe, but there is still plenty of porous egg surface left to breathe, so I don't see a problme here. My only other concern would be that the condensation on the inside of the plastic wrap may come into contact with the egg shell that is behind the glue line. This could possibly deteriorate that part of the shell, and thus cause a problem. However, I think you are close enough to hatching that if it manifested, it would still be close enough to save the hatchling.

Because of their tumble out of the incubator and sitting at 70 for possibly a few hours will they delay their hatch date? They are on day 42. Only 19 days left. Should I cut the eggs at day 60? Or just wait and see what they do?

I would not expect that short of a period of cool incubation temps to affect hatching. If anything, it woula push it back one day. Please keep us posted (you have done a great job of this so far), but the updates are definitely registering in my mind, and helping me to devise a plan of attack for the next time this happens (in the event that the process could be tweaked a little)