How to Tell a Fertile vs INfertile Egg (Pictures)

[PaisyQ]

Fertile!!! Beautiful yolk color too!! What do you feed your girls?

That was the only egg that got that deep, I'm afraid. This was one of her first eggs, laid after I think it was about a week of near constant free ranging. The hen who laid it LOVES to eat grass. Predator issues have since cropped up, and they now only get to be out of the run when I can be out to supervise. A real bummer for all of us.

 

[jsharpin]

Hi! We found our first chicken egg yesterday! The kiddos were thrilled! We have seen the rooster having "fun" time with the hens. Does this egg look fertilized? If so, yay!

 

[emudd000]

Thank you for the great tip absolutely love BYC!

 

[RoosterLew]

We had a young rooster and I wasn't even sure he was "friendly" with any of the girls, but we found this funky, not so hard egg in the coop. When we cracked it to see if it was normal inside we found this. I immediately thought it was fertile. Which I'm sad about because we re-homed our rooster yesterday and I would have loved some chicks out of him. Is it fertile? Would a chick have been able to last in a really weak shell? I heard that if a rooster mates that the hen can lay fertile eggs for days.





I had been incubating some eggs for 3 days and hadn't seen any development so I cracked one. I saw this. Was it a developing embryo?

Actually they can Lay fertile eggs for 2 to three weeks after mating....you may still have a chance for having chicks from that roo.
If you have any eggs collected in the last week that have not been refrigerated, check one for fertility and set those eggs

 

[KWSRetMSgt]

I hope this isn't off subject, but I just got my incubator earlier this week and wanted to test it out. So Yesterday I took seven fresh laid eggs and set them in the bator.
I knew this would be a trial and error thing because I've never incubated eggs before. Then I got thinking, (That's usually when the fun begins),
My roo's are only about 15 weeks old, are they even old enough, or are they just shooting blanks at this time.
I've seen them mounting almost every hen in the coop even the young one their same age.

So I'm thinking ................................. am I waisting electric on seven eggs that may not even be fertile. Or can even a young Roo get the job done???

I plan on candeling them all come next Friday,(10/25) that will be 6 days in the bator, so I guess I'll know better come Friday.

I attached pictures of my table top candlier I made just this past week, It cost me exactly $ 0.00, of course everything you see there was either scrap from past projects, or items removed from other handyman projects.

 

[turkeybirdeld]

Thanks. We just added a rooster to the flock. It was great to see some pics. Maybe a silly question----but if I collect the eggs daily and refrigerate them, would you see it much bigger than that ?

 

[psmith]

is there any way to tell before you crack the egg open to see if it is fertilized

 

[RoosterLew]

is there any way to tell before you crack the egg open to see if it is fertilized

Stick 'em in bator for 4 days and candle them lol

 

[Bryam]

Please let me know if these eggs are fertilized or not!

Thank you!

 

[psmith]

yes I'm sorry to say but those would have been little chicks.