All pencil rubs off to me unless it's a grease pencil.. but sharpie or any other crayola non toxic marker if you like is good.. avoid red.. NOT because red attracts pecking.. actually anything out of the ordinary attracts pecking and blood when discovered how delicious and rich it is creates a frenzy of excitement that attracts others attention who may join in and have havoc ensue.. Their combs are red, their wattles, etc.. the reason I avoid red marker is simply because during hatching as the shell gets pipped and starts to fall away it *can* look like a blood vessel was pipped causing undue alarm. So I use black, blue, green.. whatever is available and easy to see at a quick glance.. to it the whole quick glance thing.. under a broody.. I mark the egg with a band in each direction all the way around the egg. You might try different "band" styles.. like 3 bands in the same direction.. top, middle, bottom.. respectively.. if ya catch the general drift. The marker quickly evaporates without clogging pores.. I've hatched hundreds of chicks using them without issue YET.. but pencil under a broody, and issues ensued including collecting the wrong egg and not realizing until the next day when I went to put them in the fridge.. it was too late for that embryo.. and my hard lesson is one I'm sharing so you don't ever have to face that sort of easily avoidable accident!
Welcome! Which bators.. capacity please?
Exactly what I was thinking as I ran through labeling just now.
So I ended up with
35 eggs to set.. in my 42 egg bator, that has two prior hatches to this one already going..
I'm such an attention to detail, over thinking type person.. and we all know what happen when you add cold stuff to a warm bator.. temp drops.. SO also knowing that older, stored eggs can take an extra hour + to hatch over "fresher" eggs.. I decided to set HALF at 11 am PST.. which has dropped my bator to 84 degrees and it's back up to 90 (forced air) within 15 minutes.. Which won't effect the eggs I'm setting per say but the others already well developing.. IF too far for too long.. deformities DO happen, as seen in prior power outages.. hence my consideration for extra efforts.. Now I wonder if I should set the other half at noon or wait for temp to return a little longer and set the other half at say 1? Or recognize I do my my best and whatever, whatever anyways.
My results reflected approximately the same outcome.
Same question as above.. capacity please? What's that mean.. are they cabinet bators!
True though, all the other eggs that hatched, hatched fine with no issues. Didn’t seem affected by the stink bombs.
