12th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

[Cynthia12]

Dirty is relative anyway.

Ok.

 

[Trisseh]

If I didn’t set dirty-ish eggs, I would never set duck eggs ever. Lol. As long as they’re not cracked, wet for longer than a short period of time, and not like caked in manure, I scrape off the worst of it and set them anyway. I have washed eggs before but I find they dehydrate a lot faster and it’s hard to keep the humidity up in my incubators, so I just leave the really stuck stuff on them. Haven’t had a single rotten egg, except for a few stinky late dead quail, and those weren’t dirty, just hard to see into. Lol.

 

[BullChick]

View attachment 2568186I have two bators going...one due to hatch in 10 days.

 

[Cynthia12]

 

[BullChick]

If I didn’t set dirty-ish eggs, I would never set duck eggs ever. Lol. As long as they’re not cracked, wet for longer than a short period of time, and not like caked in manure, I scrape off the worst of it and set them anyway. I have washed eggs before but I find they dehydrate a lot faster and it’s hard to keep the humidity up in my incubators, so I just leave the really stuck stuff on them. Haven’t had a single rotten egg, except for a few stinky late dead quail, and those weren’t dirty, just hard to see into. Lol.

Oh my goodness, waterfowl eggs are a whole other story!

 

[Cynthia12]

If I didn’t set dirty-ish eggs, I would never set duck eggs ever. Lol. As long as they’re not cracked, wet for longer than a short period of time, and not like caked in manure, I scrape off the worst of it and set them anyway. I have washed eggs before but I find they dehydrate a lot faster and it’s hard to keep the humidity up in my incubators, so I just leave the really stuck stuff on them. Haven’t had a single rotten egg, except for a few stinky late dead quail, and those weren’t dirty, just hard to see into. Lol.

The mama chickens and mama ducks don't wash them. So... .

 

[BullChick]

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There’s a quail breeding trio on my sun porch, and a window to it at my head. One o’ clock in the morning!!!!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Shipped eggs received in perfect timing and are set in the incubators! That makes 3 jam packed incubators!

 

[BullChick]

Shipped eggs received in perfect timing and are set in the incubators! That makes 3 jam packed incubators!

 

[BullChick]

Okay, @Cynthia12 Are your eggs set?!