Fertilized Egg

[SulkyBantam]

Hmmm possible. OP, ideas?

 

[featherhead007]

And (Again) it's not my rooster. He's been inside with me all night!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

I say you get or borrow an incubator, through them in there and see what happens!

 

[humblehillsfarm]

I say you get or borrow an incubator, through them in there and see what happens!

I thought the same thing, but I am addicted to hatching eggs!

 

[featherhead007]

I thought the same thing, but I am addicted to hatching eggs!

Nah, You are in it for the chicks!

 

[waltersr07]

Number three does look a little suspicious to me, the tail is curving ever so slightly. It might just be the angle, but he would be my number one suspect. I have had a fertilized duck egg before I got my drake, but my one rooster was a big fan of the Muscovy so I assumed it was him. Maybe if you have other poultry around, that would be my only other guess.

That is my black sex link, if she was a rooster, she would be barred.

 

[waltersr07]

In my region I could never imagine a roaming rooster or hen, but I know it's happened elsewhere. I kinda thought chicken #2 looked rooster-ish in OPs pictures, but I'm useless at guessing chicken genders! What I do know from my own experiences is all of mine have crowed by the age of 3 to 3.5 months, way before six months of age.

That is my salmon faverolles. Roosters look wayyyyy different.

 

[waltersr07]

I live in a neighborhood. To the right I know they don't own chickens and then their house is right next to a major road. To the left, they don't have chickens but they do have 2 big dogs that wouldn't let a rooster mosey into their yard to get to mine. I also have never heard any hen egg songs, let alone a rooster crow. My brain hurts lol from trying to figure this out.

 

[NatJ]

Possible explanation: parthenogenesis ("virgin birth").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis#Birds

Apparently some chickens and some turkeys have been found to produce fertile eggs even with no males present. The eggs can develop partway, but usually don't produce live chicks that make it to hatching.

I can't tell how common or rare that is, but it would be one way to have a fertile egg with no rooster around.

(Some kinds of lizards reproduce that way all the time! But chickens typically don't.)

 

[featherhead007]

I'm thinking we have some sort of Jurassic Park thing happening here?