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

[venymae]

Blood rings are bacteria getting into the egg. Did you wash them with a weak bleach solution? The helps to prevent blood rings--along with washing the incubator the same way

Really?!? I was thought bloodrings were just eggs that died in the early stages of development and could be caused by a variety of causes (infection, temperature issues, impact trauma, bad genetics, etc.)
No, I do not wash my eggs. They were visually clean, and unwashed. I was under the assumption it was better to not wash the natural coating off the egg unless it was very dirty?? I do sanitize my incubators as best I can. I take them completely apart. Then I wash them as I would dishes with hot water and dawn dish detergent. Lastly I wipe them down with lysol disinfectant wipes. Let them dry and reassemble. Any suggestion for improvement? I generally don't keep bleach in the house because everything that's not supposed to get bleach on it somehow does.

 

[venymae]

I have two pips!!!!

 

[ronott1]

Really?!? I was thought bloodrings were just eggs that died in the early stages of development and could be caused by a variety of causes (infection, temperature issues, impact trauma, bad genetics, etc.)
No, I do not wash my eggs. They were visually clean, and unwashed. I was under the assumption it was better to not wash the natural coating off the egg unless it was very dirty?? I do sanitize my incubators as best I can. I take them completely apart. Then I wash them as I would dishes with hot water and dawn dish detergent. Lastly I wipe them down with lysol disinfectant wipes. Let them dry and reassemble. Any suggestion for improvement? I generally don't keep bleach in the house because everything that's not supposed to get bleach on it somehow does.

Embryos die all the time and do not leave a blood ring.

Sometimes thee is a blood ring without an embryo:

Try washing the eggs next time. Many have their best hatch rates ever after washing eggs.

Manna pro egg wash has hatching egg cleaning instructions--works without bleach.

You will not be washing off the bloom. That does not come off as easily as we are taught to believe. The eggs we get from the grocery store are washed very harshly to remove the bloom.

 

[duluthralphie]

Yes. T


"Pop" is a noise.

WHAT!!! It is a drink~!

 

[ronott1]

WHAT!!! It is a drink~!

The old soda cans had to be "popped" open with a can opener. They had a point on them for piercing the top of the hard tin can that was used for soda before aluminium cans. I remember when I was growing up when the cans switched over and the pull tops were used.

Lids on the bottles were popped off using the other end of the can opener. They actually made a pop sound too.

Does any one else remember that?

 

[duluthralphie]

Embryos die all the time and do not leave a blood ring.

Sometimes thee is a blood ring without an embryo:

Try washing the eggs next time. Many have their best hatch rates ever after washing eggs.

Manna pro egg wash has hatching egg cleaning instructions--works without bleach.

You will not be washing off the bloom. That does not come off as easily as we are taught to believe. The eggs we get from the grocery store are washed very harshly to remove the bloom.

I have never had a blood ring like that.....It could be I kill all germs 4 or 5 times before my eggs hit the incubator...Which has been disinfected a few times too....



Pop and or Soda I can understand..BUT IT IS POP...but the places that call all soft drinks "coke" drive me nuts...

The waitress asks if you want a "coke" and you say sure....Then she says " what flavor coke?

 

[duluthralphie]

The old soda cans had to be "popped" open with a can opener. They had a point on them for piercing the top of the hard tin can that was used for soda before aluminium cans. I remember when I was growing up when the cans switched over and the pull tops were used.

Does any one else remember that?

Duh.. yeah
They did not come out with the pull tabs until way into the 70s I think...We always had a church key or opener with us.

If White's was still up he could tell you when the first clay flasks were used.......

 

[BullChick]

Pop and or Soda I can understand..BUT IT IS POP...but the places that call all soft drinks "coke" drive me nuts...

The waitress asks if you want a "coke" and you say sure....Then she says " what flavor coke? View attachment 1167339 View attachment 1167339

I moved from the Boston area to Newark, NJ. The guy at the pool asked what kind of Coke I wanted. He got huffy too. I was a small child. He made me cry! My mother came over, and told him Pepsi. She told me what his issue was, but I obviously am not over the experience a million years later.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

When I lived in Ohio,

I wuz born in Mt. Vernon Ohio..

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Time to recharge the batteries

Hopefully you have deep cell.. good night whites