How to Tell a Fertile vs INfertile Egg (Pictures)

[katjames11]

Thank you, I sure am learning a lot here today..

 

[katjames11]

I will do that & thank you

 

[farnorth]

I know Sussex are supposed to be broody but I have two Speckled Sussex and they have not been broody.

My most broody hens are a Buff Orpington and an Australorp. I like the Australorp the best as she will let me handle the chicks without taking my hand off. She just hatched 5 eggs plus I gave her 2 from the feed store and 6 that I hatched myself in an incubator (all were born within a week of each other) I simply added them as I got them and she didn't blink an eye.

 

[erinnoie]

Are these two fertile?? First time with a broody and also incubating, hoping the few extra eggs we used from our flock are also fertile Thanks!

 

[farnorth]

Are these two fertile?? First time with a broody and also incubating, hoping the few extra eggs we used from our flock are also fertile

Thanks!

I would say yes. but don't go by only me lol.

 

[WalnutHill]

Left, yes. Right, maybe.

 

[subhanalah]

Are these two fertile?? First time with a broody and also incubating, hoping the few extra eggs we used from our flock are also fertile Thanks!

Left, yes.  Right, maybe.

And I say left maybe, right yes. So, there ya have it...both fertile! Yay!

 

[gander007]

I don't know if this has been asked before but I did look through the Trend and did not find it so I will ask how do you tell a fertile egg with out cracking the shell

 

[Quack Addict]

I don't know if this has been asked before but I did look through the Trend and did not find it so I will ask how do you tell a fertile egg with out cracking the shell

incubate it and check for development.

 

[gander007]

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That is my common method but I had a Science Teacher of my son's ask for some goose egg's this last year and he was mad that none of them were futile but that was checking them with a light and somehow I hatch out the same egg's and have for years and just figured he was an educated idiot but I was polite and just said to him oh did not know I could use a light to check for futility before I put them in the incubator .....