Our ducks and turkey chicks are nearly hatching!

@destry (2572)
Kirkwall, Scotland
March 17, 2017 7:11am CST
We have 1/2 dozen turkey eggs and 1/2 duck eggs in our incubator at the moment - they are about three days away from hatching. Annoyingly, the incubator was playing up all night and the temperature controls were all befuddled. Every 15 mins throughout the night, the temp alarm would give off a series of beep BEEP BEEP and would not let up until we pressed the reset button. We have no idea why, or what caused this strange behavior- but as soon as I awoke this morning after a few minutes of sleep, it seemed to had sorted itself out!
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (339464)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Mar 17
That would have been a long night if the alarm kept going off. Hopefully the eggs haven't been harmed.
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Happy Homestead
@destry (2572)
• Kirkwall, Scotland
17 Mar 17
Every time I checked them - every 15 mins, the temp was within the safe zone for hatching, just not at the optimum temp. Most frustrating, but, they should all be ok! Fingers crossed!
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (339464)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Mar 17
@destry It will be exciting to see them breaking out of the eggs.
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M.-L.
@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
17 Mar 17
There will be a lot of noise when the birds cackle (or whatever it's called) all day long.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (471294)
• Switzerland
17 Mar 17
I hope nothing happened to the eggs and they will hatch at the due time. The ducklings are my favorite, they are such cute little birds.
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