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Sarah Meaders:
As I practice and learn all I can about chicken breeding, I am weighing the option of washing hatching eggs vs not washing. I have read testimonials on both sides. This group has always given me very good answers from experience, not just research. So please, share with me which you do, why, your success rate, and if you DO wash, what you wash with? Thank you in advance! I am going to be setting my second batch of my layer flock eggs next week with incubation adjustments made so all answers are so very appreciated!!

Paul:
  We recommend to wash all hatching eggs!  We use 6 1/2 oz. of Oxine per gallon water to disinfect the eggs.  You do not want to get a bacteria in your incubator!  It's much better to try to prevent rather than try to cure.  If the eggs are clean they are just dipped in then out of the solution.  We have been doing this since Jan. 2004.  It was required at that time by the Texas Animal Health Commission, due to a problem that has been eliminated for over eleven years.

  The GQF Manufacturing Co. also recommends washing hatching eggs with a disinfectant.

Birdcrazy:
I like Paul wash my hatching eggs but with Tek-Trol with no adverse reactions. I also use this product to disinfect my incubator and hatcher between hatchings.

Susan Mouw:
Is this what you use, Gordon?
http://www.qcsupply.com/tek-trol-disinfectant.html?utm_source=googlebase&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=Cj0KEQjw0fOoBRDn88Pol8bqhN0BEiQARGVJKqqF_h5KuV6i2fRMC_4jol1RMbWZBY_TZTO_qqGeZzkaAmF38P8HAQ

Birdcrazy:
Yes Susan, that is the product that I use. I buy mine from Smith Poultry and Game Bird Supply in Bucyrus Ks as I can buy it in quart size and by the time you dilute it I have a supply that lasts me many months.

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