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Thank you, Steve! I thought I heard that they weren't fertile but it was so long ago... I must have confused that part in my mind with the crosses like Peafowl and Guinea. With the Beltsville, what percentage was fertile? I wonder if it's possible with peas... just because we never heard of...

It's a green egg from an Easter Egger (EE) chicken hen. Just hatchery quality, I plan to get real Ameraucanas soon.

Parthenogenesis is when the egg is fertilized without a male... some strains of turkeys have it fairly common (I think I read 30% or higher?). I was just wondering if it ever happens with peafowl. This is my first year having a laying peahen, she was an '08 hatch and laid about 9 eggs this...

Just wondering, has anyone ever heard of parthenogenesis in peafowl eggs? I have heard of it with turkeys, and if I recall the offspring are male. I think I also heard that they are sterile, but I'm not sure on that... Can it happen?

I have gotten huge eggs from chickens before... one so huge folks thought that it was a goose egg. This one is a bit smaller, was about 4" long and came from one of my EE hens last summer: I would eat it, this time of year (depending on location) I doubt it would be a pea egg. Even if it...