Royal Palms laying up a storm

[ebonyann]

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I have heard chemicals in sharpies can kill them? I marked my first 2 with them and was worried

We use a pencil for incubated eggs but the ones outside are all sharpie marked. It would be interesting to see what is in a sharpie? I wouldn't think it would be anything to toxic but you never know.

Steve

Toxic enough to get you higher then h**l if you use them in an enclosed tiny room for too long.

 

[longranger]

The sharpies are much easier to read than pencil. They also come in different colors making it easy to differentiate eggs in a mixed batch at a glance. I believe the ink in sharpies is acetone based. It evaporates very quickly and would do no harm. The pigment I am not sure about but it does not even penetrate the full thickness of an eggshell, at least not with a reasonably light touch while writing. The dye is not water soluble so after it almost instantly dries it goes nowhere anyway.

 

[longranger]

Not that I believe everything I read but it says nontoxic on the side of sharpies. The solvent probably is acetone or ether with how fast it dries. Really doubt they would do any harm.

 

[KOTurkeyRanch]

Like i said, i put sharpie on 2 eggs, and they hatched out fine. Its all good =]

 

[DaKid]

Ive use both sharpies and a pencel have not had any problems so far

 

[OmaBird]

I date my eggs with sharpies on the air cell. I never had a problem. Easier to read than pencil.