What's the best way to clean off hatching eggs DURING incubation?

teach619

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Apr 20, 2012
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I have some eggs under a broody hen and they are due to hatch any day...

Unfortunately the hen has pooped and it's gotten on some of the eggs... AND I think I had a rotten egg explode (I say think because of another post - I have no idea what happen).

Anyway - how can I clean off the eggs? warm water and a towel? I know they are porous so I don't think leaving rotten egg or feces on them is a good idea... But I don't want to hurt them by cleaning them off the wrong way..
 
I have NO experience with chicken broodies, my first is due to hatch (hopefully) soon.

I did have a duck that had an egg explode or get crushed under her a few days before hatch. She had gotten up to go bathe, I just wiped the eggs with hay (all that I had close by). I had 10 of the remaining 14 hatch. The egg didn't stink, was the consistancy of hardboiled yolk so I don't think it was fertile. Don't know if that will make a difference.
 

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