Incubators Anonymous

[DMRippy]

here is an article by one of the most experienced hatchers here

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-dark-eggs


get your sandpaper out fellas

Ok, so that was 400 grit and betadine, got it.

REALLY?????? I hatch hundreds of Marans a year and have never needed to sand an egg to get it to hatch. I do think you are just asking for trouble removing that natural barrier we all so value in reg eggs. I will rinse an egg i will not scrub it to remove the bloom why would you sand a marans? I dry incubate the same for all my eggs and have very very high hatch rates.....that is why i am on this thread....i need help....i have about 400 chicks under the age of 4 weeks....more hatching today too.....there is no hope for me



I set 150everything more yesterday.

 

[Zootopia]

REALLY?????? I hatch hundreds of Marans a year and have never needed to sand an egg to get it to hatch. I do think you are just asking for trouble removing that natural barrier we all so value in reg eggs. I will rinse an egg i will not scrub it to remove the bloom why would you sand a marans? I dry incubate the same for all my eggs and have very very high hatch rates.....that is why i am on this thread....i need help....i have about 400 chicks under the age of 4 weeks....more hatching today too.....there is no hope for me



I set 150everything more yesterday.

Lol. You! There is no help for !!

 

[ozexpat]

REALLY?????? I hatch hundreds of Marans a year and have never needed to sand an egg to get it to hatch. I do think you are just asking for trouble removing that natural barrier we all so value in reg eggs. I will rinse an egg i will not scrub it to remove the bloom why would you sand a marans? I dry incubate the same for all my eggs and have very very high hatch rates.....that is why i am on this thread....i need help....i have about 400 chicks under the age of 4 weeks....more hatching today too.....there is no hope for me



I set 150everything more yesterday.

dont shoot the messenger

you hatch local eggs though correct?

 

[DMRippy]

REALLY?????? I hatch hundreds of Marans a year and have never needed to sand an egg to get it to hatch. I do think you are just asking for trouble removing that natural barrier we all so value in reg eggs. I will rinse an egg i will not scrub it to remove the bloom why would you sand a marans? I dry incubate the same for all my eggs and have very very high hatch rates.....that is why i am on this thread....i need help....i have about 400 chicks under the age of 4 weeks....more hatching today too.....there is no hope for me I set 150everything more yesterday.

dont shoot the messenger

you hatch local eggs though correct?

Home grown and shipped .... all get the same treatment. Just hatched 4/5 that made it to lockdown (6 were shipped). They were nice color too. No sanding. Sally sunshine hatched 24 i think from about 36 i shipped. I dont think she sanded them either. That was a few months ago maybe for new years day or soon after.

 

[Runawaylobster]

REALLY?????? I hatch hundreds of Marans a year and have never needed to sand an egg to get it to hatch. I do think you are just asking for trouble removing that natural barrier we all so value in reg eggs. I will rinse an egg i will not scrub it to remove the bloom why would you sand a marans? I dry incubate the same for all my eggs and have very very high hatch rates.....that is why i am on this thread....i need help....i have about 400 chicks under the age of 4 weeks....more hatching today too.....there is no hope for me



I set 150everything more yesterday.

X2

 

[Arielle]

Ok how about the urban legend of dark maran eggs? I have read everything down to sanding thru the color, which sounds a little crazy. What does a broody use for sand paper? Is there really not a way to hatch these dark eggs without jumping thru hoops?
By the way I received an egg that is partly plummed. I figure it would take a small miracle for that one to hatch. I could understand sanding thru that extra coating, just to allow the egg to evaporate the extra fluid, not to mention how the heck a chick is supposed to pip thru that.

Read CHookschicks page on handling shipped marans eggs.

I was lucky and bought 10 chicks a few years ago to get started and sincee then I don't have much luck on shipped marans eggs; the shipped eggs gave me 2 roosters to diversify bloodlines a bit.

I have my marans eggs under broodies!!!

 

[ki4got]

i'm with Donna... I've never sanded a marans egg. none are local for me, all shipped.

I hatch for other people locally who want specific breeds that aren't available locally. so they find the eggs and have them shipped to me.

and my track record is pretty good, if I do say so. LOL

 

[ozexpat]

i have 12 wellies and 12 bcm next egg run, i have the 400 grit and betadine ready.

 

[Tammy N]

Quote: I did not sand my Marans eggs and they looked like a cup of coffee. so dark and Beautiful 15 out of 24 with some incubator issues and i lost all the wellsummers i want to buy some more eggs or chicks but will wait , i saved the best male and 6 females out of that hatch. Yeah . PS I did nothing special except bought from a good person and hatched as normal eggs where very clean, and no they where not washed or sanded . but id ask Zanna how she Does it she is the one i got mine from and she does well

 

[Tammy N]

Quote: Home grown and shipped .... all get the same treatment. Just hatched 4/5 that made it to lockdown (6 were shipped). They were nice color too. No sanding. Sally sunshine hatched 24 i think from about 36 i shipped. I dont think she sanded them either. That was a few months ago maybe for new years day or soon after.
I want some more marans eggs LOL but not in the hundreds LOL