Fertile or infertile?

[Kessy09]

 

[radio2]

I think the top one is fertile

 

[crazycluck86]

Agreed, top one is fertile

 

[123ChickieLou]

Fertile or infertile?

 

[Kessy09]

It's hard to say chickielou. I wish I could zoom in but I can't on my phone.

 

[123ChickieLou]

It's hard to say chickielou. I wish I could zoom in but I can't on my phone.

I couldn't get a good pic either. The one on the bottom/left does have a ring around the white dot. The other looked like it did after I rubbed it with my finger. Both eggs were laid today if that makes any difference.

 

[Kessy09]

Thanks for the replies. I was just curious because my husband said he would never eat a fertilized egg. We are new to chicken keeping. He made me go out and buy our regular free run eggs that we've been getting for years from Walmart. These are two eggs I cracked from that package. I opened all 12 and 7 of them were very obviously fertile.

 

[bugglesmommy]

Yup. Your husband has been eating fertile eggs as long as he's eaten eggs. Fact is that even though big egg companies try and keep only hens, when you have 20,000+ birds roosters slip the cracks. Fertile eggs do not taste different, have no nutritional difference, and contain no embryos until incubating.

 

[radio2]

Thanks for the replies. I was just curious because my husband said he would never eat a fertilized egg. We are new to chicken keeping. He made me go out and buy our regular free run eggs that we've been getting for years from Walmart. These are two eggs I cracked from that package. I opened all 12 and 7 of them were very obviously fertile.

Were they white eggs?

 

[Kessy09]

They were brown eggs. Why? I'm curious.