Best marken/pen/pencil to write on icubation eggs with

[Bock_Bock]

what is the best writing utencil to write on an egg with that you are going to incubate, i was also wondering if you use sharpie on outsid eof egg does it seep threw to the chick and its veins?

 

[WriterofWords]

#2 pencil

 

[Katy]

Don't use a sharpie...just use a plain old pencil.

 

[Bock_Bock]

thats what i was thinking to but i will be turning by hand and i heard that with the humidity in the bator the pencil marking smear and or run off

 

[AHappychick]

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no it wont come off at least mine never have

pencil is best

 

[Bock_Bock]

10-4 then that is what i will use i just don tknow if i have any pencils in my house lol haha

 

[WiseChicks]

#2 pencil or colored pencils. Worst case, a crayon works, but you may have to re-mark at some point. Have a friend who uses a dot of food coloring (squeezes foodcoloring onto a q-tip and then lightly dots each egg with the q-tip.) She uses different colors to differentiate when she put them in the bator. She has a calendar hanging by the bator, and dots the day with the same color as the eggs! Colorful and non-toxic.

 

[Bock_Bock]

thats a good is idea all me eggs are gonna be mutts so i realy dont care but i am getting them from atleast 2 diffrent people tho thats where the diffrent colors would come in but i can just right on the egg who it is from

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi!
A black Sharpie Permanent Marker is fine to mark eggs for hatching.
It's non-toxic and has never *here* seeped thru the shell or membranes.
I mark ALL my eggs that are potentially-for-hatching with a black Sharpie and have since I started incubating eggs.

Lisa

 

[MissPrissy]

I use Mirado Black Warrior pencils. It unleashes the Stephen King in me.