Fertile?

[featheredplanets]

Made some scrambled eggs for the hens and noticed the blastodisc on the middle yolk actually looks like a blastoderm... Or do my eyes deceive me? It just looks like all the pictures of fertile eggs I’ve seen. But, it’d be impossible because I don’t have a rooster nor have my hens been exposed to one, like, ever. Is it just a strange egg?

ETA: And it’s not one of the eggs I bought yesterday lol.

 

[Trish1974]

That DOES look fertile. How long have you had your hens? I'm just wondering if you have recently purchased them and they were in with a rooster before you brought them home?? My experience - they can be fertile up to three weeks after being removed from a male's company.

 

[featheredplanets]

That’s what I was thinking but it just seems impossible. I bought them on the 20th of April but they didn’t start laying until two weeks after then. Unless a magical rooster flew into my garden and mated my hens, I’m really not sure how or why it was fertile. My neighbours don’t keep chickens and we can’t keep roosters. And it’s definitely not a mix up of the hatching eggs I bought yesterday because they were blue, my hens lay brown and white eggs.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

lol...um...

 

[featheredplanets]

lol...um...

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