finally pics and video I just took today.....which is a roo? bulls eye

[Saltysteele]

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the red one in the back, here. does that one have 1" spurs? maybe it's just the angle of the camera, but i don't see that on the others.

 

[deeps]

i dont know what makes you think you have a roo since your first post just says "this" and has no picture

but if your talking about a red spot in your eggs
the blood spot is not always a mark of fertilization
infertile eggs can have a blood spot too, and if eggs with that kind of spot happened to be fertilized no chick will develop (in my experience anyway)

 

[Robin'sBrood]

Nope, the spur isn't an indication either. I have a brown leghorn hen and a golden comet hen with spurs on one of their legs. Both of them are two years old... I guess instead of growing mustaches like some older women, hens just sprout spurs.

I honestly don't think you have a roo. So you can eat your eggs!!

 

[RustyHen]

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In the second pic the chick standing in the middle of the lid looks like it might have roo feathering near it's tail, and thicker ankles and legs ? just a guess.

 

[Saltysteele]

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the bullseye she is referring to is a small, opacity on the yolk of an egg, that is where development begins. it has been covered in several posts, along with pix in one of these threads. if not fertile, it will be a white spot, however, when fertile, the center becomes translucent and it looks like a donut

 

[pdsavage]

Why not just incubate a few and see if they are,try making a simple incubator and see if the do anything.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=9370

 

[Firefly]

OP you might have fertilized eggs, even if you don't have a roo. You might find this article interesting; I've always been fascinated by the idea of parthenogenesis.

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/artic...-normal-fertilization-and-embryonic-mortality

 

[arabianequine]

What do you think? Looks like a bullseye to me.

The difference with this picture is there is a cloudy band around the white center like a donut to me anyways.

I think this one is not fertilized.

 

[arabianequine]

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Oh I could but I suck and did it one year and really depressed how many turkey eggs were not fertile and how many chicks died.

I have a incubator. I would then of course have to wait several days. I really don't think I am gonna keep the rir anyways. They are not laying at all hardly and my eggs are scarce. If I am paying to feed them. I better get more eggs then I have been. My ee is not laying at all. I will not get rid of her though. Her name is Betty you know black betty or the buff orp. I want more ee's though or true ones. We like their eggs best.

 

[Saltysteele]

those are actually unfertilized.

the bullseye comes from the lack of white in the center, not an increase of white pigment. everyone says bullseye, but it looks like a donut, to me


Check out this thread, cmom posted pix from another thread that give a good example of fertilized vs unfertilized