Hello everyone,
I have a LOT of eggs.
I painstakingly wrote down ON the eggs in pencil exactly where I got it from (with a code I made up myself) along with the breed of chicken the egg contains (if it should hatch). They're all purebreds and all of them apart from 4 eggs are from an NPIP breeder.
It then occurred to me that the chicks who hatch are going to muck up my pencil marks ...there's a high probability they may pip or zip or hatch right through their code, etc....which will cause me to end up saying 'uhhhh...what the fowl are you?" and I don't want that. I'm OCD about a lot of things (diagnosed by Dr..not saying OCD flippantly) and I really am trying VERY hard not to be that way about my eggs, but I'm not succeeding and it's really bothering me.
Is there an easier way for me to know what I have in there, especially when I already know the breeds but...now I'm thinking my pencil marks and codes was all for naught, since the chicks are likely to eradicate those marks when they hatch.
Thanks!
I have a LOT of eggs.
I painstakingly wrote down ON the eggs in pencil exactly where I got it from (with a code I made up myself) along with the breed of chicken the egg contains (if it should hatch). They're all purebreds and all of them apart from 4 eggs are from an NPIP breeder.
It then occurred to me that the chicks who hatch are going to muck up my pencil marks ...there's a high probability they may pip or zip or hatch right through their code, etc....which will cause me to end up saying 'uhhhh...what the fowl are you?" and I don't want that. I'm OCD about a lot of things (diagnosed by Dr..not saying OCD flippantly) and I really am trying VERY hard not to be that way about my eggs, but I'm not succeeding and it's really bothering me.
Is there an easier way for me to know what I have in there, especially when I already know the breeds but...now I'm thinking my pencil marks and codes was all for naught, since the chicks are likely to eradicate those marks when they hatch.
Thanks!
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