Fertilized egg???

[Thespeckledchick]

Ok, so I'm kind of new to raising chickens, and I just started to get my first eggs about 2 weeks ago. I've been seeing these white dots in the yolks, but don't know if they are fertilized or not. I have 8 hens and no roosters, so this is kind of puzzling to me. If you need better pictures feel free to tell me, but thanks for the help, because I need it!

 

[snow5164]

I see nothing but it’s apsolutely impossible to have a fertilized egg with out a fertilizer( rooster)

 

[tacothechicken]

Nope not possible the white you're seeing is the actual Egg that would form into a chick should it be fertilized and would then absorb the yolk as it grows. but you can't get chicks w/out a roo

 

[tacothechicken]

If you did have a roo and the eggs were fertilized those dots wold look like a target whith a ring around them signifying fertilization

 

[Susan Dye]

Ditto...no rooster, no fertilized eggs.

 

[tacothechicken]

 

[Cyprus]

Not fertile.
If you don't have a rooster the eggs cannot be fertile.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Your eggs are not fertile. What you are seeing is the blastodisc. It only becomes a blastoderm when the hen has been fertilised by a Male. As you have no roo your eggs will not be fertile I’m afraid.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

@Thespeckledchick

You had started 2 thread so I moved all posts to your thread with the pics showing.

 

[Thespeckledchick]

Thanks!