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I'm going to try egg blowing this weekend. A family member has been making jewelry from plant parts, and I want to offer her a few eggshells from my celadon (blue egger) quail. The only problem is that eggshells are too fragile as they are. I'm thinking I'll fill them with something to make them just a bit less crushable... does anyone have any experience with blown eggs? Would injecting them with clay or paper pulp help?

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As a kid, we made blown eggs every easter to decorate them.

I believe different breeds of chicken have thin or thick shells.

Blue seems to be the most fragile and brown ones are the toughest.

Our egg steamer has a gadget for piercing the eggs which would make blown eggs easy though I have not used that gadget for blown eggs.

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In our poor years, my wife and I made Christmas tree ornaments out of them.  I never put anything inside them, but why not experiment?

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I've read of using wax for this.

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The last eggs I blew were from my geese - I'd use a dremel with a ball-mill bit to make the holes. They don't break easily!

However, I can imagine that quail eggs would. I'm wondering if using a hypodermic needle to inject some glue inside and rolling the egg around so that it was thoroughly coated on the inside mite work? I'd worry about trying to fill it, because most materials change in size when drying, or need air to dry.

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I wonder if coating the outside with shellac or something prior to blowing might work?

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I picked out ten brown and ten blue eggs. They were much more difficult to blow out than chicken eggs, and I broke 4 of each, but I have a nice dozen to gift and decorate with.

I was hoping to figure out some natural or recycled material to add to make them more solid, but it turns out the person I'm giving most of these to uses epoxy resin.
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I have blown eggs before, and you have to blow hard. It usually makes my head hurt. When I was in El Paso, Latinx people made them into cascarones by filling them with confetti  and putting some paper over the hole. Those were meant to be broken, though. I'm not sure there is any way to make them stronger except  coating the outside of the shell with a clear lacquer or varnish- not exactly non-toxic. If you say filled the shell with something and then the shell got tapped it would still crack and eventually peel off the whatever it was filled with, at least that was my experience when I tried.

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When I raised geese, I blew their eggs out. And almost my brains! Then I found this tool...Blas Fix. That's German for egg blowing. I originally purchased it from Hearth Song but they don't stock that anymore. I found a link for a uTube. Here's the link

https://www.youtube.com › watch?v=PNHeGA7qsr4
How to use a Blas-Fix (Egg blowing) - YouTube

I see the tool is on sale at eBay and Etsy. I have had my tool for 30 years or so. Some of the eggs I have are 30 + years old and there's no odor. A bit late for Easter this year but you have time to find the tool. Best of luck!

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