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Hello, I had 5 chicks last summer so they are now around 8 months old. One of the hens has been sitting on her eggs for 12 days so I had a look with a light to see if anything inside. There's an air sac but no veining or sign of an eye, just a dark blob floating at the top. Why is there no chick?? I have 1 cockerel to 4 hens. I've believed the eggs to be fertile as I've seen the bullseye when I cook with them but am I wrong?? 1st time chicken keeper! Any help appreciated. Photo of an egg I collected today, is it fertile?
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Frizzle fran said:
Hello, I had 5 chicks last summer so they are now around 8 months old. One of the hens has been sitting on her eggs for 12 days so I had a look with a light to see if anything inside. There's an air sac but no veining or sign of an eye, just a dark blob floating at the top. Why is there no chick?? I have 1 cockerel to 4 hens. I've believed the eggs to be fertile as I've seen the bullseye when I cook with them but am I wrong?? 1st time chicken keeper! Any help appreciated. Photo of an egg I collected today, is it fertile?View attachment 1711153
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Not fertile.
These are fertile:
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How old is your cockerel/rooster?
 
Frizzle fran said:
I didn't think it was . He is 11 months old, he's always been in with the 4 hens same age. Why would they not be fertile?? Quite disappointed! Poor hens still sat on 4 eggs
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Are all the eggs from the same girl? What breed is he? Some of the males are more virile than others. He might also just have bad aim.
 
DobieLover said:
Are all the eggs from the same girl? What breed is he? Some of the males are more virile than others. He might also just have bad aim.
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They are all silkies except one is a frizzle, but she took eggs off some of the others! No idea which are hers . He's always treading them so I just assumed they would all be fertilized! Black cockerel stormy
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Yep that's a good-un! I have read that to help with fertilisation on Silkies you can trim thier bum fluff a bit to help with the process. Not tried it myself but just an option. I'd probably do a bit of random testing and open say 10 eggs (quiche for dinner :lol::ya??) and count how many are fertile as a % (but I'm a bit of a chicken geek with stuff like that!):lau

Good luck and here is to some gorgeous fluffy silkie chick pictures very soon!
 
Frizzle fran said:
Hello, I had 5 chicks last summer so they are now around 8 months old. One of the hens has been sitting on her eggs for 12 days so I had a look with a light to see if anything inside. There's an air sac but no veining or sign of an eye, just a dark blob floating at the top. Why is there no chick?? I have 1 cockerel to 4 hens. I've believed the eggs to be fertile as I've seen the bullseye when I cook with them but am I wrong?? 1st time chicken keeper! Any help appreciated. Photo of an egg I collected today, is it fertile?View attachment 1711153
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Yup that is most certainly a fertile egg. Can you see the small cell (a dot) towards the lower right of the yolk? That means it is fertile.
 

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