Does a bullseye always mean fertile?**New Update 2/15 post #31**

[newchickmom09]

This morning I was making eggs and cracked one open. I started cooking the egg and looked down to see a white dot with a white ring around it. Now we have 7 chickens and I know for sure that 6 are laying. The last chicken is an EE that hasn't started laying yet. So my question is does a bullseye always mean they are fertile. I was 100% sure that the last chicken is a hen.

Ok, I decided to go crack open some more eggs to see what I would find. I finaly got good enough pictures (after taking about 20

) that show what I am talking about. Hopfully everyone can help me out.

Blue is the bullseye spot & Pink is the plain spot (they are the same three eggs just dumped in two different bowls

Each egg closer

 

[newchickmom09]

I tried to take pictures of the egg but my stupid camera's screan is broke (thanks to my 3 yr old

) so I couldn't tell how the pics were coming out. None of them came out so the egg looked just like speckledhen's pictures in this post: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16008&p=6

Got the pictures up...post #1

 

[Dora'smom]

My assumption is yes, but having experienced a similar situation to yours, I really don't know. I'm bumping you in hopes that someone with more experience comes along.

 

[TK Poultry]

i was told that that is what that means i think some one told me in my thread tiltled silly bullseye question

 

[kathyinmo]

Yes, bullseye means fertile. Looks like you have a rooster!

 

[texasgal]

How long have you had the newest hen .. maybe she was bred when you got her?

 

[newchickmom09]

I have had them since they were day olds. They all came together in the same chick order I placed.

 

[speckledhen]

Sometimes, there will be a shadow around the blastodisc that makes it look fertile at first glance, so could be that. Or that last layer may not be a layer after all.

 

[texasgal]

Ohhhhhhhhhh ... I think you need to post pics of that 7th "hen" in the "what sex is this" section .. LOL.

 

[WingingIt]

Quote:
What she said. I have hens only and, yes, I'm positive they are only hens and that they are all laying. I once opened an egg and saw that and completely confused myself trying to figure out how in the heck a rooster could have done that when I, nor any of the neighbors, have a roo!

Came here and found a thread that showed an egg that looked to have the bullseye and then someone had posted another pic. farther down of a true bullseye....mine wasn't.

I agree, though, you might want to put up a picture of that last 'hen' just to be sure.