Drake... hit or miss?

[Knighstar679]

I am trying to figure out if my drake is hitting his mark. I just lost all my other female layers to a fox two weeks ago now I only have the one left. Would be nice to know if could hatch their eggs.

 

[DuckyDonna]

So you still have a girl and a drake? You can't always tell from looking for the bullseye. If you aren't sure put them in an incubator and see what happens!

 

[Knighstar679]

The fox was nice enough and left me with my drake and a single female out of the three I had.

 

[DuckyDonna]

The fox was nice enough and left me with my drake and a single female out of the three I had.

I know when I hatched last summer I had been using the eggs for cooking and was thinking that the "bullseye" just wasn't happening so I wasn't at all sure that the eggs were fertile but they certainly were! All of them.

You can't always go by what you see on the yolk so get as many eggs together that you want and put them in the incubator. I'd do them all at the same time though just so you aren't going nuts at hatching time. You should know what's what after 5 days when you candle them. You'll either see vein action or nothing and then you'll know.

 

[MeganFair]

Those all look fertilized to me. When I zoomed in, it was faint, but I saw the circles I associate with fertilized eggs. As DuckyDonna said, throw em in the incubator and see.

 

[cheezenkwackers]

I’m with MeganFair, they look fertile to me as well.