Da' Cute and Cuddly Call Duck thread!

[Julie Birb]

FERTILE!!!!

How can you tell? It looks like an egg I'd fry and eat. So is there an embryo embedded in the yolk somewhere? Does it form in the yolk?

 

[minihorse927]

How can you tell? It looks like an egg I'd fry and eat. So is there an embryo embedded in the yolk somewhere? Does it form in the yolk?

a fertile egg had a bullseye appearance. The white dot will have a white ring around it. A unfertilized egg will show a white dot that is irregular shaped with no ring

 

[Julie Birb]

a fertile egg had a bullseye appearance. The white dot will have a white ring around it. A unfertilized egg will show a white dot that is irregular shaped with no ring

I see the ring!! Barely, but I see it. It's so subtle. Thanks for letting me know.

 

[buff goose guy]

okay im about to go post a classified for fertilized eggs now just to figure out how.

 

[Julie Birb]

okay im about to go post a classified for fertilized eggs now just to figure out how. 

Good luck. R u gonna do craigslist?

 

[buff goose guy]

no id dont trust craigslist, i just sent an advertisement for the states farmers bulletin i think i might put one on here as well, ill have to do that later today

 

[Julie Birb]

no id dont trust craigslist, i just sent an advertisement for the states farmers bulletin i think i might put one on here as well, ill have to do that later today  

oh geez good call on that. I am stoked you are being so careful. I had no idea sale forums existed for critters.

 

[Ravynscroft]

I see the ring!! Barely, but I see it. It's so subtle. Thanks for letting me know.

Minihorse answered you, but figured I would add to it, lol... you can eat fertilized eggs, they're really not different from infertile except that IF you incubate them, they can become a duckling, or chick if chicken eggs...

 

[Julie Birb]

Minihorse answered you, but figured I would add to it, lol... you can eat fertilized eggs, they're really not different from infertile except that IF you incubate them, they can become a duckling, or chick if chicken eggs...

Thank you, I appreciate it. I love asking cuz you guys have so much knowledge and experience. I didn't know you could eat them. For some reason I pictured a fertile egg having an embryo in it only and no yolk to live off of. So in other words, that fertilized egg buff goose guy asked you about had cells in it that were a baby. And it would be weird if I (and play along here) found an abandoned egg outside, picked it up and kept it warm, humidity correct and etc, it would form into a lil duck or chick. Wow. So sweet. I enjoy learning on here.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Thank you, I appreciate it. I love asking cuz you guys have so much knowledge and experience. I didn't know you could eat them. For some reason I pictured a fertile egg having an embryo in it only and no yolk to live off of. So in other words, that fertilized egg buff goose guy asked you about had cells in it that were a baby. And it would be weird if I (and play along here) found an abandoned egg outside, picked it up and kept it warm, humidity correct and etc, it would form into a lil duck or chick. Wow. So sweet. I enjoy learning on here.

And I love that you ask...

Some people won't eat fertilized eggs, it is a personal choice... some feel it's just 'icky' or goes against beliefs or lifestyles, etc... but all fertilized is that a boy has added an extra cell to the egg and given it the potential to become an embryo... it takes 2 or 3 days of constant, consistent proper warmth for the embryo to develop... and then it uses the yolk as its food and growth source... make sense?

And I love your analogy... fertilized eggs can be viable for a couple weeks and up to a month, so if you found a fertile egg outside you could try incubating it... some people have found eggs and done that...

Edited for spelling, lol...