Are these eggs fertile???

[Lbrad7]

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12 weeks??? Your girls may have set a new record cause I can promise you that those eggs are fertile! The pics you posted of the "bullseye" are text book quality examples. Try putting a few in an incubator and you should be able to candle them in a week or so and you can verify 100 percent if they are fertile are not.

 

[FiveHens]

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12 weeks??? Your girls may have set a new record cause I can promise you that those eggs are fertile! The pics you posted of the "bullseye" are text book quality examples. Try putting a few in an incubator and you should be able to candle them in a week or so and you can verify 100 percent if they are fertile are not.

Hate to say, these are truly backyard chickens and we do not own an incubator...these chickens came from eggs hatched for us by a friend. Any other way we could verify?
PS if it matters, all of the eggs in the pics are within a few days old.

I'm going to post pics of the chickens now, even though, as I said above, I cannot imagine one of them being a roo, I can hardly believe they've set a record.

Griffin, we presume a red star cross

Lizzy

Nutmeg

Pippin, lays (for certain) green eggs (see avatar)

Thanks!

 

[Sierra pachie bars]

One of them is a roo. Nutmeg kinda looks like has saddle feathers. Could be photo or my eyesight. Sometimes those EE's can be tricky. I had one that fooled several people he was a she. Until one day she started crowing.

 

[FiveHens]

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No way. These guys are all 10 months old, four eggs/day, never heard a crow out of one of them. We used to have a rooster, had to give him away, he was one good crower and chased the ladies too. None of these guys take after him in the slightest.

 

[Lbrad7]

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12 weeks??? Your girls may have set a new record cause I can promise you that those eggs are fertile! The pics you posted of the "bullseye" are text book quality examples. Try putting a few in an incubator and you should be able to candle them in a week or so and you can verify 100 percent if they are fertile are not.

Hate to say, these are truly backyard chickens and we do not own an incubator...these chickens came from eggs hatched for us by a friend. Any other way we could verify?
PS if it matters, all of the eggs in the pics are within a few days old.

I'm going to post pics of the chickens now, even though, as I said above, I cannot imagine one of them being a roo, I can hardly believe they've set a record.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/53498_griffin.png
Griffin, we presume a red star cross

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/53498_lizzy.png
Lizzy

The bullseye is really the only other way that I know to tell if they are fertile or not. It is pretty much a sure thing.
I have to ask...why do you care if they are fertile or not? Are you worried about eating a fertile egg, or did you just see the bullseye and it raised your curosity as to how they could possibly be fertile?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/53498_nutmeg.png
Nutmeg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/53498_pippin.png
Pippin, lays (for certain) green eggs (see avatar)

Thanks!

 

[JenEric Farms]

this is a fertile egg

this is a non fertile egg

 

[pgpoultry]

I'd be sure that the eggs are fertile.

You must have a very crafty roo if he is indistinguishable from a hen!

Otherwise you have PARTHENOGENESIS methinks!

 

[Jferlisi]

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I dont know if im right but from what i have read and the videos i have watched and all that pippin is not the one who lays the green eggs. it is nutmeg who is the one who lays green eggs. she looks like a EE crossed with something else. Do you see how her legs are a greenish color, thats a trait of birds who lay the blue/green eggs, they have the greenish gray legs(hens i mean). I could be wrong but i think im right here. Anyone can feel free to tell me im wrong.

 

[incubatingisfun]

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12 weeks??? Your girls may have set a new record cause I can promise you that those eggs are fertile! The pics you posted of the "bullseye" are text book quality examples. Try putting a few in an incubator and you should be able to candle them in a week or so and you can verify 100 percent if they are fertile are not.

Hate to say, these are truly backyard chickens and we do not own an incubator...these chickens came from eggs hatched for us by a friend. Any other way we could verify?
PS if it matters, all of the eggs in the pics are within a few days old.

I'm going to post pics of the chickens now, even though, as I said above, I cannot imagine one of them being a roo, I can hardly believe they've set a record.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/53498_griffin.png
Griffin, we presume a red star cross

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/53498_lizzy.png
Lizzy

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/53498_nutmeg.png
Nutmeg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/53498_pippin.png
Pippin, lays (for certain) green eggs (see avatar)

Thanks!

hmmm pippin looks like a roo but i just dont see hens laying four eggs a day consitently weird

 

[FiveHens]

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I dont know if im right but from what i have read and the videos i have watched and all that pippin is not the one who lays the green eggs. it is nutmeg who is the one who lays green eggs. she looks like a EE crossed with something else. Do you see how her legs are a greenish color, thats a trait of birds who lay the blue/green eggs, they have the greenish gray legs(hens i mean). I could be wrong but i think im right here. Anyone can feel free to tell me im wrong.

Yes...you are right, except that none of these hens are pure-breds. Their father was an ameraucana, their mothers varied. Thus, they inherited different ameraucana genes. And yes, Pippin does look like the least likely one to lay green eggs. But I assure you, she does.