A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

[ABQ chicken keeper]

Down to 43 eggs. Already removed 4 early quitters, 2 each of the SLW and BBSW. They already had blood rings which I’m not surprised by in the SLW but I’m concerned about the BBSW.
Here’s a decent looking BBSW egg last night.
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And the same egg tonight, note the line forming on the right. I suspect it is early sign of the blood ring.
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One of the other failed BBSW eggs with a very obvious blood ring.
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Most the other eggs I can see through look like this. Second one is a day or so behind but looks to have an embryo right in the middle. I will note that the light brahma cross’s eggs are all looking perfect as are the large fowl mix’s.
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Were any of the 4 eggs fathered by JR.?

 

[DemeterAD9]

Were any of the 4 eggs fathered by JR.?

I would assume they all are, the hens were away from the other boys since Feb 14th so they had 4 weeks to clear out their system of other "deposits". Jr was with them for the last 2.5ish weeks.