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I have played this year with putting dirty in and also cleaning them - can't come up with any conclusive answers I am afraid...

For not washing them....

Nature - Mother hen does not wash them and they seem to do fine!

It washes the protective coating off them.

 

For washing them...

bacteria will grow in the lovely warmth of the incubator and risk passing through the eggs and causing a problem with the developing embryo - usually resulting in death of said embryo.

 

If i wash my eggs i would use very warm water - it then 'draws out' the bugs from the shell not pass through. I gentle use a non scratch sponge and get the worse of the dirt off.

 

I have to say though really really mixed results - one batch i tried I scrubbed them all clean and got a fantastic hatch...

Another batch I tried did exactly the same and had a large percentage with a bacterial ring inside the eggs.

 

IN the ideal world we would all have lovely clean eggs that need nothing doing to them - but it is just not going to happen in this wet weather.

 

Good luck either way and let us all know how you got along.

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