Ditry eggs Wash/Not?

[whippet128]

I soak all my hatching eggs in 100degree water. 1/2 gallon of water to one tablespoon bleach. Old timer told me this and it works well for me. eggs must be room temp before soaking

 

[rancher hicks]

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I've never heard of the stuff or read about it. What do you consider great hatches? Washing an egg would have no effect on it's fertility since that happens before the egg is laid. I wonder what the hatcheries do?

 

[okcarla]

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I've never heard of the stuff or read about it. What do you consider great hatches? Washing an egg would have no effect on it's fertility since that happens before the egg is laid. I wonder what the hatcheries do?

I consider a great hatch to be 100% which is what many of my egg customers get. I'm happy with a 60-75% hatch though. If an egg is dirty, the bacteria can eventually get into the egg and cause the embryo to die. Washing an egg that is extremely dirty with lots of harmful bacterial on it will clean off the bacteria and possibly help the embryo to hatch. We've been doing it for years now and have great hatches, even with the really dirty duck eggs that we've pulled out of very smelly muddy water.

 

[DANNY]

I have always washed my dirty eggs. I am not going to put all that bacteria in my incubator. I have read all that crapp about not washing them and i think it is another load of bull that people read. I will say i don't have many of those (great hatches) but when you set 200 eggs a week you are just dreaming if you think you are going to get a 100% hatch.

 

[Oklahoma Lightning]

I talked with a lady that works wih the Huston Zoo, they wash their eggs in an 1 percent badine ( that brown stuff they use on you in surgery) and dry. I think she said this is what most zoo do. Then I ask a friend that works for Tyson hacthery and they wash their eggs,too and they set thousands.
I am not putting dirty eggs in for sure so they got washed and put in.
And it couldn't be any worse than my last hatch try.

 

[rancher hicks]

I'm glad that this got posted cause I never would have thought about contaminating the incubator. maybe the books were talking broody hens or what not. I don't have either yet but it's good to know since it's probably the next step in the progression of the "chickenitis" illness.

 

[Crickett]

When I put my eggs in the incubator, several of them were quite dirty/bloody (on the outside). I wiped them off with baby wipes, and had an excellent hatch. out of 26 eggs, 25 hatched.

 

[farrier!]

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The hatching eggs I have seen gathered for Tyson were NOT washed. Dirty eggs were discarded and not set for hatching.

 

[Msbear]

Im glad to find this post. I had an incident with my last hatch. On day 5 my broody became lethargic and I realized she was infested with northern fowl mites so I dusted her with DE. She had done her business in the nest (very unlike her) Two of her eggs were poopy so I took them in side and got a dry sponge and worked off the worst of it. I lightly dampened a sponge with warm water and wiped the rest of the bad areas and stuck them under another broody.

The eggs were stained green from where the poo was. They had a hard time hatching so I brought them in a helped them out. One has a huge bulging eye that is grayed over... pretty sure its blind in that eye. They other just looks a little weak and it doesn't seem to see very well. I've been showing them where the food is, etc. (Their in my brooder now but Im pretty sure I'll have to cull both of them)

Im thinking that the poo caused bacteria to enter the shell that caused some sort of infection. What do you think?

 

[Maryallison]

I run all my eggs under the water and wipe them with my finger real quick and dry them with a towel....now sometimes if I know I am gonna put some in the bator I won't mess with them if they are clean.