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Sorry, I cant tell that your eggs are fertile or not, too much glare. Cant see the blastodisc (called a blastoderm if fertile) The next to the last picture of the chalazae doesnt show the blastodisc and all eggs have a chalazae (that cord-like thing). Wasn't sure if you meant that it was fertile...

I truly believe that the P.O. does much damage by dropping, shaking, xraying, or whatever else they can think of doing with a box marked FRAGILE, etc, that causes fertilized eggs to fail to develop at all. I think that is most of what we are seeing with shipped eggs. You just about have to put...

If they are xrayed, however, that wont erase the bullseye, which is there when the egg is laid in the nest. I have never been convinced that xraying is the cause of problems with a hatch, even if it is done.

No, you'd see the bullseye, even if xrayed.

On occasion, an egg will be missed on the "Fertility Conveyor Belt". It's either that or shipping damaged it enough so that development was stopped at the outset. And I even have another weird situation. After sending out my Lt. Brahma's eggs when she was in the pen with Suede to several people...