Eggs Marked With Sharpie Marker...help...

[Lyz]

Eggs Came Today...no Problems...but Were Marked With A Sharpie Marker...is This Going To Be A Problem?

 

[mstricer]

I really dont think so I used a fine point sharpie, I dont think it will hurt them

 

[KellyHM]

Not an issue. I mark all of mine with sharpies (including the ones under the broodies so I can take out the new eggs every day) and they all do fine.

 

[aimeeinwv]

I didn't mark the one's I sent you because I have no idea who's is who!

You're on your own to figure out what hatches! LOL!

 

[onthespot]

I mark eggs I sent with pencil, but all my own eggs I write on the large end of the egg with a fine point sharpie.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

I have been marking my hatching eggs with a sharpie, with no problems. The eggs I sell I use pencil, as some people dont care for the sharpies.

 

[Sweetfolly]

I was watching the video "Keeping Ducks: Beautiful, Comical Things" the other night, and Tom Bartlett used what looked like either a magic marker or a sharpie on his eggs as he was collecting them in the video.

For you chicken people, Tom Bartlett is a former president of the British Waterfowl Association, and he developed the Miniature Appleyard breed at his farm in the 1980's - he knows what he's doing, and he doesn't seem to have a problem using marker on his eggs!

 

[LarryPQ]

I have never had an issue with sharpie-marked eggs.