Hatching Eggs With Dirt on Them

[ChickenLoverX]

I am hatching 10 eggs in my incubator, Today I looked up some tips for hatching eggs, so I listened, but what caught my attention was when they said DO NOT hatch eggs with dirt on them because it can infects the chicks when they hatch and potentially cause them to die. I am currently hatching a couple eggs with little amounts of dirt on them, ten days in to the incubation, I wanna know if this will be fatal to the chicks when they hatch.

 

[ChickenLoverX]

I also wanna know if I can wipe the dirt off still, even though they are 10 days in.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

A picture would help advise.
You are probably OK. I made eefforts to keep nests clean and rarely had dirty eggs. You can use a scotch-brite to clean them a bit.
I once did a hatching for a friend who was doing a DP test project with Delawares for Slo-Foods. He wanted to hatch more eggs than he had incubator space. I took his eggs home and was surprised to see how dirty they were. I wasn't happy about putting them in my DIY cabinet but half of them hatched so sometimes nature will find a way.

 

[ChickenLoverX]

I’m already 11 days in to incubation, and I’m worried that it’s too late to clean them, do I still have time, or could it kill the embryo.

 

[Altairsky]

leave them alone. Dirt is not a problem. Wiping and removing the eggs bloom is a problem.

 

[ChickenLoverX]

Ok thx.

 

[Altairsky]

I hatced a lot of freebie eggs from a friend that were laid on the ground and they were really muddy, and I had no issue with the hatches.
We tend to keep things overly clean and we're excessively worried about germs, but nature is not all that clean really, and birds have been here long before our soaps and our disinfectants.

 

[ChickenLoverX]

Good point. I needed someone to help me view it from a different perspective.