washed eggs

This boy hatched from my washed and refrigerated eggs incubation experiment last spring. He's the only one of the 19 chicks that had this coloring - the others were clearly part Easter Egger (muffs and beards, hens lay blue/pink/green eggs), mostly reddish coloring (a few buff and a couple...

I've traditionally only incubated unwashed eggs (poultry and waterfowl), and wouldn't have even considered trying to incubate refrigerated eggs...until I got my hands on some I really liked and after I read a number of BYC threads that recounted successful hatches, including with refrigerated...