Are these fertile?

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I thought I was sure I was getting mostly(if not all) fertile eggs from my flock of guineas. But now I’m second guessing myself. I swear I saw a blood spot with veins once on an egg I had let sit out for a bit before refrigerating. And I thought these looked like they had bullseyes.
Can you guys help?
These are two different eggs that were laid a week apart.
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I just found out that 8 I had been incubating had no development what so ever. I don’t really want to setup my kids and myself for disappointment if our eggs aren’t even fertilized. I was planning on setting up a new batch by the weekend.
If it makes a difference my guineas are just shy of a year old. I got them in May of last year. And I have seen the males mount the females. A couple females have some missing feathers from mating. They starting laying eggs last fall and stopped for a couple of months during the winter.
 
It looks like the first one is at least fertile, I can't tell on the second one but it looks somewhat fertile. I can tell if my eggs are fertile after a day of putting them in an incubator usually, but I've been candling lots of eggs for a few months now. I think there's a good chance they are, it may have just been too early? Im waiting to get my guineas this year so I don't know much about them!
 
I sure hope they are!
I really messed up my first batch in a diy incubator so my husband ordered me one off amazon. It comes tomorrow and I’m eager to set it up. I collected eggs from yesterday and today. And I’ll wait till Friday afternoon to set them in the incubator. I should have 20 eggs then.
I really hope to get at least 6 keets. They will be for my fil. And eventually I’d like to add to my flock as their numbers drop.
 
I thought I was sure I was getting mostly(if not all) fertile eggs from my flock of guineas. But now I’m second guessing myself. I swear I saw a blood spot with veins once on an egg I had let sit out for a bit before refrigerating. And I thought these looked like they had bullseyes.
Can you guys help?
These are two different eggs that were laid a week apart.
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I just found out that 8 I had been incubating had no development what so ever. I don’t really want to setup my kids and myself for disappointment if our eggs aren’t even fertilized. I was planning on setting up a new batch by the weekend.
If it makes a difference my guineas are just shy of a year old. I got them in May of last year. And I have seen the males mount the females. A couple females have some missing feathers from mating. They starting laying eggs last fall and stopped for a couple of months during the winter.
The first one is definitely infertile, the second one, maybe fertile maybe not. It's hard to tell from the pic. Are you absolutely sure there are males? A lot of females will mount each other. How many birds do you have?
 
The first one is definitely infertile, the second one, maybe fertile maybe not. It's hard to tell from the pic. Are you absolutely sure there are males? A lot of females will mount each other. How many birds do you have?

Pretty positive. I have 13. The females are smaller then the ones I’m pretty positive are males.
*male* on left, female in middle.
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Male?
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Pretty positive. I have 13. The females are smaller then the ones I’m pretty positive are males.
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Male?
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Hm, I'm not sure I only have a hen so I've never seen males. Have you tried voice sexing them? Only hens can do the buckwheat call. If you separate one bird away from the flock it should make the call if it's a hen.
 
Hm, I'm not sure I only have a hen so I've never seen males. Have you tried voice sexing them? Only hens can do the buckwheat call. If you separate one bird away from the flock it should make the call if it's a hen.

I’ve tried and for the life of me can’t figure out their calls. 😣
 
The first one is definitely infertile, the second one, maybe fertile maybe not. It's hard to tell from the pic. Are you absolutely sure there are males? A lot of females will mount each other. How many birds do you have?
Are you sure it's infertile? I zoomed in and there's a darker color around the first one I thought. it looks like a feint bullseye to me.
 
Are you sure it's infertile? I zoomed in and there's a darker color around the first one I thought. it looks like a feint bullseye to me.

That’s what I see too and I was sure it was fertile. The second one I thought was iffy. But now I really have no idea.
 

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