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

[Wickedchicken6]

Nothing will go wrong, and you will be so much happier knowing you are bringing baby chicks into a clean safe world where they are not attacked by germs in the womb,,,,,

I have washed eggs in the past. Those were the ones that didn't make it.
But I'm considering I didn't have it hot enough. I'm staying open minded.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

If you need to wet a particular dirty spot, a little spit and elbow grease should clean it right up.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

You mean you don't eat random 1 year old chocolate chips you find whilst cleaning?

 

[duluthralphie]

I have washed eggs in the past. Those were the ones that didn't make it.
But I'm considering I didn't have it hot enough. I'm staying open minded.

Shipped or your own?

Cold water will actually bring "gunk" (technical term) into the egg. That is what the USDA Vet told me anyways. I have had people on here argue hot water brings the gunk in..BUT I will stay with what the USDA Vet said to do..

I have not seen a difference in egg before I disinfected and after... I have noticed a huge difference in the smell inside the incubator.

 

[BantyChooks]

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What? They're yummy.

 

[ronott1]

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I have washed eggs in the past. Those were the ones that didn't make it.
But I'm considering I didn't have it hot enough. I'm staying open minded.

Likely the problem was confounding variables— shipping, illness in flock, not fertile— Those may have been the real culprit. Personal experience and poultry study results show benefits from cleaning eggs.

 

[BantyChooks]

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[Wickedchicken6]

Shipped or your own?

Cold water will actually bring "gunk" (technical term) into the egg. That is what the USDA Vet told me anyways. I have had people on here argue hot water brings the gunk in..BUT I will stay with what the USDA Vet said to do..

I have not seen a difference in egg before I disinfected and after... I have noticed a huge difference in the smell inside the incubator.

My own. I don't do "shipped" eggs per say. I drive the X amount of hours and retrieve them myself. I have a tested and true way of transportation.

Ahhh Ralphie. I know about the cold water shrinking and sucking in all the bad stuffs and the hot water expanding so it doesn't bring the bad stuff in. I was a but too meek in my few attempts at the time that I did it. When I wash eggs for human consumption...if my egg shell are not up to par, my hot water will crack my egg.
The dog is happy at that moment. Woka woka.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

bbiab

 

[ronott1]

I used the em dash for You!