Marking Eggs with Pens & Markers

[violets812]

Is it true that you should only use pencils to mark eggs?. I read that markers or pens would poison the baby inside. Thanks!

 

[spartacus_63]

I just hatched 9 of 10 eggs that were marked with a Sharpie with no ill effects. The 10th egg was not fertile.

 

[igotgoosed]

Think of it this way, markers and pens bleed and run. Eggs are porous. Lead does not bleed and run.

 

[lovesgliders]

I agree with igotgoosed. Even if the babies hatch fine, you never know if they have some kind of internal problem (or maybe even a predisposition to cancer or other diseases) because of absorbing marker or ink chemicals.

 

[spartacus_63]

I certainly am not recommending one method over another, but the sharpie marker did not bleed through the shell and the ink in the markers are non toxic (you won't get cancer from sucking on a Sharpie).

 

[justacouplemorechicks]

I mark mine with whatever is laying around when I go out the door.... I have used ink pens, markers, crayons with no obvious effects

 

[Graham runner]

I wrote on my eggs with a normal pen I wonder what will happen I am really stressed out because all these messages I am reading and I am new at this so what must I do

 

[JRies]

I wrote on my eggs with a normal pen I wonder what will happen I am really stressed out because all these messages I am reading and I am new at this so what must I do

Your ok there is more lead in a pencil than ink. I used pencils this year and sharpies last year, Do not notice a difference. Except the pencil fades.