My boy IS DOING IT RIGHT and has been all along. I AM getting fertilized eggs and have been all this time that I've been calling him names, threatening to throw him in a pot, and suspecting him of being gay. Mea culpa! Mea culpa! Mea Culpa! Miss Prissy was right. I was looking at the spot on the yolk wrong, thinking that the "donut" proof of fertilized eggs should be bigger, like at least a very obvious fourth-of-an-inch ring. I was just now reading another post and opened this URL, https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16008 , that shows a MUCH smaller, less conspicuous donut, much unlike the one I saw on another post several months ago. Miss Prissy, bless her little pointed head, told me last week that she suspected that I didn't know what I was looking for, and SHE WAS RIGHT.
Ya wanna hear sumthin really stupid? I used to think that the two white cords that keep the yolk suspended in the middle of the eggshell before it's cracked was semen from the rooster. All my life, any time that I was cooking the egg (not very often), I'd take a spoon and take those white blobs out of the skillet. I didn't know better until about eight months ago when I began reading books about raising chickens.
For crying out loud! It's a good thing there are women around to keep you from hurting yourself! So, did you go out and apologize to your roo?
