Are these eggs fertile?

[Jay262]

Im in Canada and have been trying to incubate my goose eggs past few weeks since they have started laying. Idk if its due to the cold or my young gander I have had no luck so far. So what do you guys think this is todays eggs do they look fertile or should I get another gander?

 

[PrairieChickens]

I think I see a bullseye, meaning it would be fertilized. Cold temperatures can render fertile eggs non-viable, so if it's still really cold where you're at, that's probably the problem. My first batch of eggs, I had a lot of eggs just never develop, due largely to the fact that the lows were well below 0 F at the time. By the time I could collect the eggs, they'd already been chilled.

Good luck!

 

[Jay262]

Any more opinions I have been getting like zero development in the eggs so far a couple eggs I even put in pretty much soon as they were laid I cant figure out whats going on. Im running the incubator at 99.5 and humidity from 40 to 60 percent. I am hand turning the eggs 3 to 5 times a day.

Not sure why im getting no development at after candling at 10 days.

 

[Oldmomma]

I read a sticky thread here today on fertile egg detection. Use the search option he included images. All eggs will have a spot from what he posted but the dot will be more pronounced looking like a donut or bullseye. It looks unfertile to me but im pretty new and going on the photos he posted. Good luck.

 

[Jay262]

I actually think its fertile if you look closely you see the bullseye but this doesn't explain at all my hatch rates being 0 percent so far .

 

[nicole camp]

I think it's just too cold for you to hatch eggs yet. You can wait while one is laying, but yes this does look fertile.

 

[Oldmomma]

Guess a more experienced eye will tell. After I read the thread I was making some scrambled eggs and my daughter was asking why I was taking so long. Told her I was looking for the spots. Im not sure if eggs here are from farms or local farmers. When I came 6 yrs ago I was sickened to have 4 of 6 eggs we got for breakfast from my MIL had babies in various stages inside. Turned my stomach off eggs for a bit. So I dont know if they were from the family chickens she picked up or from the market. I need to ask someone as it may vary from market to market. Im pretty sure the ones in fancy boxes are non fertile but flats with eggs covered in poop and feathers and dirt well hard to say. Im keeping my eyes out for dark ones.

 

[PrairieChickens]

I hear stories like that all the time, where people cracked open an egg and found partially-developed chicks inside and I just can't understand it. Who is out there picking up eggs willy-nilly and SELLING them with no idea how old they are or if a broody has been incubating them? We would never sell an egg to a customer if we didn't know it had been collected the day it was laid! When we find hidden clutches, we check them carefully for development and freshness, and even then we set them aside for our own use.

*shakes her head and sighs*

 

[nicole camp]

That would be very gross to find a chick inside. I would feel horrible! I wouldn't buy from them again.

 

[subhanalah]

That egg is fertile.