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Incubating some eggs?
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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1391860" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>I use sharpies all the time on the eggs and have no problem with the hatchability. In fact I use a sharpie, put a circle around the middle of the egg so that the one hen I have can sit and I just take out the eggs from the other hens so she only incubates "her eggs" This is a hen that will not set anywhere but in the "big coop". Tried moving her several times and she will quit. So I just let her set where she is, mark the eggs and the day or so before they are due to start hatching, will put a piece of thin plywood in front of the box to cover about 3/4 of it so no one else can go in and she can hatch. Pain in the.... but she will hatch more eggs than anyone else. As soon as she is done I can move her into a "setting hen house" with the chicks and she is fine. But we don't use a regular magic marker, just a sharpie. Most people will use a pencil, but it will wear off and when we set multiple breedings, it can be hard to distinguish them when we move them into sections for hatching in the incubator.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1391860, member: 25884"] I use sharpies all the time on the eggs and have no problem with the hatchability. In fact I use a sharpie, put a circle around the middle of the egg so that the one hen I have can sit and I just take out the eggs from the other hens so she only incubates "her eggs" This is a hen that will not set anywhere but in the "big coop". Tried moving her several times and she will quit. So I just let her set where she is, mark the eggs and the day or so before they are due to start hatching, will put a piece of thin plywood in front of the box to cover about 3/4 of it so no one else can go in and she can hatch. Pain in the.... but she will hatch more eggs than anyone else. As soon as she is done I can move her into a "setting hen house" with the chicks and she is fine. But we don't use a regular magic marker, just a sharpie. Most people will use a pencil, but it will wear off and when we set multiple breedings, it can be hard to distinguish them when we move them into sections for hatching in the incubator. [/QUOTE]
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