washing egg that i want to hatch

[AmyLynn2374]

You made my cheeks hurt over that one! I'm in the same boat. Have always used pencil. Why? Just because! But, this time, I have a lot more to keep track of. So, I bought some multi-colored sharpies! I'll be marking air cells with pencil, but will mark breed and most importantly gender predictions with my colored sharpies!
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Quote Cray4en: well call me crazy but I decided to wash them all to see what happens. I don't need any chicks but had the eggs. I sat 24 eggs this morning at 4 a.m. so 21 days and I am hoping for chicks.

I'll be following with my own set on Friday, if the incubator holds steady temp. Will be bleaching it and hopefully kicking it into gear tonight or tomorrow morning. I've decided to do some gentle spot cleaning with a mild bleach solution. I'll also mark those eggs so I can do a comparison between hatch rate of "cleaned" vs natural.

Can't wait to see how close your gender predictions are...lol Are you using pink for girls and blue for boys???

 

[lazy gardener]

I've got blue and red. I plan to set all of the Dom eggs, since they should be producing black sex link chicks, and they're fairly easy to identify from the other brown eggs. The trick will be to identify which chick came out of which shell. If I have enough room, I could put all of the pointy eggs in one basket and all of the round eggs in an other basket. I have all of the supplies needed to make an other bator... may just have to cobble one up so I can divide the hatch. Any way, those eggs will provide instant gratification regarding the egg shape theory.

 

[cray4en]

well, tomorrow is day 19 for my hatch. I hope some start hatching!