Thank you very much for your answer! While I've been around chickens at various times in my life, I have to admit I know little about them. I often just sit there and watch them. Better than TV!
Our chickens are kept in a pen with the coop inside. We have lots of predators here, including the...
I can do the picture thing and I will. The blood in the yolk is the key, at least from my experience. I might have a hermaphrodite hen/rooster. Thanks for your reply. Will try to follow up with pix.
We have four Rhode Island Red hens, or at least we thought we did. They all look like hens, but I've noticed several eggs that appear to be fertile. Since I don't 'candle' our eggs for obvious reasons, I find the usual 'blood' in the yolk common to a fertile egg when I actually use the egg. We...