7th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2016 Hatch-A-Long

[bamadude]

Ouch

 

[LocalYokel]

These are great and right around $20
You can also get a 12 v lighter socket with battery clamps already on the other end for like $10

 

[Laurel Meadows]

Since you guys were so helpful with my last question (Thank you!) I actually have 1 more My eggs arrived and are super muddy...they look like mud balls...silly ducks! Should I rinse them off? I tried googleing to no avail. I just got a Brinsea and don't really want to put potentially Bacteria ridden mud balls in there just yet...but I don't want to hurt their chances of making it either. Do you guys rinse your eggs when they look like this....

Whoa!! Those are really dirty. No way can you put them in the bator like that!!
You are still going to risk bacteria getting inside if you wash them though. But in my opinion, the lesser of 2 evils in your situation is to wash them in warm water. Not cold it will pull the nasty stuff into the egg. Not too hot, it can damage the embryo. I would ask for some clean replacements from the seller myself.

 

[Laurel Meadows]

Ouch

How's yer head feeling today bama? ;-)

 

[LocalYokel]

Like this one

 

[ronott1]

permission to add that to that post link Ron?

Yes!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Yes!

thank you sweets!

 

[bamadude]

How's yer head feeling today bama? ;-)

Terrible but thanks for asking

 

[ronott1]

Since you guys were so helpful with my last question (Thank you!) I actually have 1 more

My eggs arrived and are super muddy...they look like mud balls...silly ducks! Should I rinse them off? I tried googleing to no avail. I just got a Brinsea and don't really want to put potentially Bacteria ridden mud balls in there just yet...but I don't want to hurt their chances of making it either. Do you guys rinse your eggs when they look like this....

Yes, you can safely wash them. Use warm water to get the stuff off--the theory is that using water warmer than the egg will not force bacteria into the egg--It's a thermal properties thing.

Then rinse them in a weak bleach solution--1TBL bleach per gallon of water, contact time one minute.

This will not remove the bloom and I have cleaned dirty eggs--they hatched fine for me.

 

[ronott1]

New Contest added and thread started announcement!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...number-7-contest-guess-the-number-of-eggs-set

Guess the number of eggs set contest:

Contest number 7 Guess the number of egg set for the Hatch a long.

Deadline: December 14, 2015(after Quail set day)
Prize: BYC Calendar

• Open to Hatch a long members
• Must enter guess in the contest thread:
• No duplicate guesses and one entry per member
• Winner announced after After Dec. 14th.

Good luck!

Tip, use the search the thread feature so that you do not duplicate a guess.