EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[kwhites634]

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[Akrnaf2]

Benny, I used the instructions here - the bleach, plus carefully controlled temp by measuring after each egg and microwaving the solution when it cooled under 100F.

Washing and storage of eggs post

@Akrnaf2
 

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Thanks!

Shalom to all of you! How's the hangover?

Shalom Benny no hanging over anything here.

Shalom Pen. No alcohol for you? ( not for me either! )

 

[BantyChooks]

 

[Pensmaster]

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BESTIE BESTIE BESTIEEEEEE!! LOOK!!! @campingshaws

AND... Mister air-cell-from-Hades is enlarging the pip!!! e

 

[Akrnaf2]

 

 

I have a question


Does (do?) Anyone wash and sterilize his/her incubation eggs before setting them? And if the answer is positive I would glad to know, what is the product they are using, and how they use it. I thank you in advance.

I don't, and never noticed a hen doing it, either.

My freind I am sure that you never noticed a hen measuring the humidity but you stil do it!

It is a precaution from entering some nasty pathogens to your house.

You're right, but then I don't set dirty eggs, either.  I'm sure there have been nastier things in this house in the last 43 years. My initial thought when reading your question, though, was that washing would remove the natural protection from the exterior of the shell, which may allow your sanitation agent to get inside. That brings to mind the practice of a horse breeder I once knew. He owned a valuable stallion that he stood at stud. Before he allowed the stud to breed a mare, he washed the mare with soap & water. I'm told that soap is a spermicide! All I know for sure is that my mare never carried a foal from that stallion.

The question is for my freind that have suffered from Marek's that is decimating his flock, so he decided to re- start his flock and vaccinate his new flock, he decided, that although the convention is that MDV doesn't pass IN eggs and ON eggs shells he prefer to be on the safe side.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Kristin, I'm guinea free now.

Was they tasty?

 

[Akrnaf2]

CONGRATULATIONS! Finally !
You should call him "Xanax "!

 

[BantyChooks]

Was they tasty?

They went to some peeps who needed a companion or 3 for their 10yr old male guinea.

 

[BantyChooks]

CONGRATULATIONS! Finally !
You should call him "Xanax "!

He was sitting right next to the pipped one and peeping. So cute.

 

[Pensmaster]

Shalom Pen. No alcohol for you? ( not for me either! )

No alcohol here Sir Benny. If there was I wouldn't have had so much as too have a hangover. Did that once and I promised myself never again. Don't like paying for things twice.