May be a dumb question but I want to teach my daughter correctly. We are getting ready to start collecting eggs for eating & hatching. What is safe to write on the eggs with? Regular pen, pencil, sharpie. What is safest? She is doiing a 4H project of selling eating eggs, hatching eggs, & chicks & ducklings. We have hatched before but I need to make sure we have wrote on them safely before I think I have used what ever was closest & wrote well.
Writing on eggs
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Pencil works great and there is no harm to the chick...
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Pencil is safest. Unless you are marking eggs to leave in the nest, then I go with sharpie. For instance if you remove all the eggs from a guinea nest they will not lay there again. So you need to mark a few to leave there so they continue to return and you know which eggs not to take out. All the getting off and on the nest will rub pencil off.
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I prefer a pencil when hatching one breed. I also use colored thin sharpy when mixing multiples.
I have seen no difference in hatch rates with either.
just my .02
I have seen no difference in hatch rates with either.
just my .02
Sharpie here. Lots of people use them. Pencil rubs off too easily (I use broodies.)
I use a Sharpie ultra fine point pen and it works good for me.
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