Fertile or duds

[410farmer]

I’m not planning on hatching these they been exposed to temps above 75 degrees for a couple days. Ended up with 8 in about 5 days from 11 hens not too bad for 6 week olds. I’m going to wait to start collecting them when most of the hens are laying regularly. Now on to the egg pics

I’m thinking in these pics there’s only one that’s not fertile

 

[Ratchnick]

You can't tell if they are fertile untill you start incubating them.

 

[Crestcrazy2]

You can't tell if they are fertile untill you start incubating them.

X2 you need to incubate them if you want to see if they are fertile or not

 

[410farmer]

That sucks ok, I have a mini fridge..should I set it to it’s lowest setting and store them in there untill I get enough for incubator which should take about 5-6 days

 

[Alwaysfowlplay]

The only way I know of checking fertility is by cracking the eggs open. I would wait another week or so and then incubate to see.

 

[410farmer]

The only way I know of checking fertility is by cracking the eggs open. I would wait another week or so and then incubate to see.

Cracking the eggs open to see what?

 

[Crestcrazy2]

A tiny white dot on the yolk

 

[410farmer]

Hmm cracked one and don’t recall seeing that but then again I wasn’t looking to hard..ok guys I’ll give it a week or so then drop them in incubator

 

[Alwaysfowlplay]

You can google to get an idea but fertile eggs should have a bullseye appearance. So if you don’t plan to incubate those ones you can crack them open to check.

 

[Fenrisulfr]

I would wait with collecting eggs to incubate untill they lay 2 weeks constantly.

The first eggs are often not fully developed, neither the shell, nor the yold.
Also you increase fertilization as the roo has the chance to step on all hens. The hens are storing the sperm, so they needn't being stepped every day.