Fertilized?

[ladynewtochicks]

I have no crowing or dominant mounting behavior going on and they are all last springs chicks, roosters were all sent away this summer (I thought). I swear I've seen them all sit and lay an egg in the box but obviously someone has gotten by me because that's a fertilized bullseye is it not??? Feel free to tell me I'm wrong, that would be great news...

 

[sourland]

That sure looks like a fertile egg in the top picture. Can you post a picture of your birds ?

 

[ladynewtochicks]

That sure looks like a fertile egg in the top picture.  Can you post a picture of your birds ?

Yes I can later the coop isn't at my house

 

[junebuggena]

Doesn't look fertile to me at all.

 

[sourland]

Doesn't look fertile to me at all.

Did you enlarge the first picture ? If so I will trust your young eyes over my old eyes, but sure looks like a blastocyst to me.

 

[junebuggena]

I did. It's an infertile spot, no ring immediately surrounding it. The displaced yolk from the blastoderm is give a sort illusion of a ring. It's too far out to be a fertile egg. In a fertile egg, the center of the blastocyst isn't quite as bright white.

 

[ladynewtochicks]

I did. It's an infertile spot, no ring immediately surrounding it. The displaced yolk from the blastoderm is give a sort illusion of a ring. It's too far out to be a fertile egg. In a fertile egg, the center of the blastocyst isn't quite as bright white.

Awesome thank you

 

[rebrascora]

Well that egg in the first photo particularly would have fooled me too. Not sure I would have any confidence in identifying a fertile egg by looking at it now.