Fertilized?

[AltonaAcres]

That does not look fertile at all to me! I can't believe I'm the only one that thinks this

 

[sealer39]

Well, you’re not the only one. That’s why I started the thread. I thought that all fertile eggs would have a well defined dot in the center of the blastoderm. I’ve been searching other pics on the net of fertilized eggs and some show a fertilized egg with a large blastoderm with no center dot.

 

[AltonaAcres]

Weird! Well I'm glad I'm not losing my mind!

 

[RoosterML]

Thanks everyone. Monday is the day then. She’ll get eight eggs and hopefully at least two will turn out to be pullets.

High hopes huh ??

 

[RoosterML]

Well, you’re not the only one. That’s why I started the thread. I thought that all fertile eggs would have a well defined dot in the center of the blastoderm. I’ve been searching other pics on the net of fertilized eggs and some show a fertilized egg with a large blastoderm with no center dot.

Weird! Well I'm glad I'm not losing my mind!

While it is not the best example of a fertile egg with the center dot. You can see a more concentrated center dot area.
This photo should help to see the difference.
I hope!

Yours to me is more like the one on the bottom center.

 

[AltonaAcres]

Oh that makes sense now

 

[sealer39]

While it is not the best example of a fertile egg with the center dot. You can see a more concentrated center dot area.
This photo should help to see the difference.
I hope!
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Yours to me is more like the one on the bottom center.

That is one of the examples I saw. So the general consensus is that my egg is fertile. Great!
After all this, that dang hen better stay broody!

 

[sealer39]

She didn’t stay broody.

 

[RoosterML]

She didn’t stay broody.

Oops!! Snooze you lose! Not sure how long she has been broody but she may have just been a wannabe.

 

[cmom]

The bullseye isn't always as discernible. When the egg is infertile it would be a small dot. To me that egg looks fertile.

Some birds are like that. I had a broody that would only sit on one egg. She wanted to sit so I gave her a half dozen eggs. I marked the eggs. She kept pushing all of the eggs out of her nest but one and would only sit on the one. I took the eggs and stuck them in the incubator and they hatched. For whatever reason she only wanted to sit on the one egg. I have golf balls in my nest boxes. I recently had a broody sitting on one of the golf balls. Good luck and have fun...