temp drop ?

[BrightReptiles]

Incubator plug got pulled out sometime last night somehow and the temp this morning was 76 instead of the usual 85. The eggs are leas than a week old. By the afternoon temps were fixed. What are the chances the eggs were destroyed?

 

[lillith]

My opinion?
About 50/50...76F is about the lowest you can go, it's considered the beginning of the egg death low temperature range. How long were they like that, how many hours? I say incubate them anyhow; leave them be unless you see deflation or mold growing. You might get a kinked tail or a weird eyelid out of it, but you might not, either. If it was under 4 hours, I wouldn't worry as much as say, overnight or a full 24 hours...

 

[BrightReptiles]

I assume just a few hours. I'm thinking the kitten yanked it out when it got off the bed around 9am and it was discovered around 12.