What do you use to mark eggs?

[hollymh]

Whatever is around! Usually a sharpie though

with no ill-effects

 

[twilight]

this our first time trying to hatch chicks, i just used the first marker i got my hands on, did i do wrong? will it make a difference? Can you tell i have no idea what i'm doing?
I have 2 really broody pekin bantams and got so sick of them stealing everyone elses eggs and at times them fighting over ONE egg that i brought them so hatching eggs and just thought we'll see what happpens. Now two weeks in i keep reading stuff and thinking OOPS we did that? i'm sure you can all offer me lots of advice along this rather unplanned route we have taken. New to byc be nice to me...please.

 

[JewellFarm]

I use a sharpie marker. I got tired of trying to see pencil markings in low light.

 

[Teresaann24]

I have used coloring food pencils and I have used sharpies and a regular pencil also have used eye liner.

 

[AngelzFyre]

Oil/Wax pencils here and it hasn't rubbed off...just be sure to get the non toxic kind without lead.
Some folks call them grease pencils.

They come in umpteen colors and stay on even if for some reason they get wet.

 

[Freebird1st]

Fine Sharpies here. Pencils are too light for me.
I've had a few 100% hatches...no problems.

 

[saddina]

Food color markers

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[insiderart]

I use different colored sharpies for each set of eggs, so I can look in the incubator and tell right away how many from each seller. I pretty much mark all over them. Date in/Date out/seller... whatever else I want to know...

 

[dancingbear]

I have 5 keets, 3 poults, and 36 chicks running around here, all from eggs heavily marked with sharpie. No tiny marks here. I daw a ring all the way around the egg, so I can see it no matter which way the eggs is turned, I write the date set. If there are any things I may want to keep track of, like who's egg it is, etc., I write that on there. If anything happens, like they got stuck in the fridge overnight by mistake before I set them, I write "ref." on them. There's a lot of writing on some by the time they hatch. The sharpie doesn't seem to have any effect whatsoever. They hatch, they're healthy, no problems.

Like these guys, hatched from sharpie-marked eggs.

 

[Glaseria]

Would silver sharpies harm the hatching eggs?

I've been using pencil but I can't see my markings on my quail eggs