How to Tell a Fertile vs INfertile Egg (Pictures)

[makenzielee98]

the thing is..i have no idea what day im on. a friend gave this to me and he doesn't even know.

 

[bernie131]

Is there any other pictures of infertile vs fertile eggs,...maybe at a different stage? I just had 2 eggs that started to not smell right and we are 16 days in,...one of them looked like a boiled egg and I cut the yolk in half and it kinda looked like a very faint pink ring with a off-white center?? I have 10 left and it is from a Pekin duck that lives at the community college and I find empty egg shells all the time so I started taking them and I am trying to incubate and hatch them but I don't know if I am wasting my time. She hangs very closely with a white goose at the pond and their are canadian geese there and Mallards, etc.. I go running with my dog everyday there, year around, and they are my babies, they come running and quacking when I get there and I would love to have some babies for them (or not),...help!

 

[Twitterpate]

Another noob here! I know this sounds like something out of "Family Circus", but I searched the whole thread and didn't find anyone saying whether or not the "putting them back in the shell" was a joke.

Do you just crack them to find out if there are fertile eggs around or can they really be "salvaged" and incubated afterwards???

If so, HOW DO YOU DO THAT?

*asks with big "Mommy, Santa IS real, isn't he?" eyes*


I swear I've seen the "bullseye" in some of our eggs in the pan, but if we have a "closet roo", derned if I know how I'll figure out who it is...

It's a joke. Promise. And no, there is no way to put an egg back in its shell if you've cracked it open.

 

[bernie131]

What is the earliest day that you can tell if it is fertile or not? If they lay everyday can somewhere in there they get fertilized? How many eggs will be fertilzed out of the eggs she is laying?

 

[buckabucka]

What is the earliest day that you can tell if it is fertile or not? If they lay everyday can somewhere in there they get fertilized? How many eggs will be fertilzed out of the eggs she is laying?

If you just recently added a rooster and plan to hatch, I would give it a couple weeks (although I think she'll be fertile sooner than that). It also will depend on how many hens you have in with your rooster. 10 or less is ideal. I cannot answer the question about how many eggs get fertilized, but my experience has been that once I start getting fertile eggs, I can usually count on that hen's eggs to hatch.

 

[speckledhen]

Someone thankfully pointed out that my photos have disappeared from the first post, probably due to a photobucket album deletion. Since I cannot edit the old thread, I have started a new one which, maybe, will be put in the place of this one. So sorry for the inconvenience, folks.

 

[bernie131]

Does a Pekin Duck lay her eggs in the same space (around the pond/lake)? She laid 20 of them and they were all unfertile, I cannot find another nest, usually I start seeing egg shells because the critters gets the most of them. AND,...we are up to 7 Mallards(drakes) and one small female Mallard.
What is the time frame for her to laying again (even if they are not fertile)?

 

[speckledhen]

I tried candling my egg but nothing moved. Much space was taken up though and there were veins? Is it still alive? I also tried the water trick and ALMOST half was sticking out. Is it a good living embryo? Will it survive? I'm 17 and this is my first time hatching an egg please help!!

If there are veins and lots of dark space, you probably have a living chick. You won't always see movement. They sleep in there. Don't put it in water at that stage. That is only for testing age of eggs, not fertility.

 

[speckledhen]

Does a Pekin Duck lay her eggs in the same space (around the pond/lake)? She laid 20 of them and they were all unfertile, I cannot find another nest, usually I start seeing egg shells because the critters gets the most of them. AND,...we are up to 7 Mallards(drakes) and one small female Mallard.
What is the time frame for her to laying again (even if they are not fertile)?

I have no idea. Ducks are not my expertise, sorry I can't answer the question. You'd be better served to put your question in a section dedicated to duck behavior. This thread is only to show folks what a fertile egg looks like. It helps when they've added a rooster to the flock to see if he's doing his job or if an old rooster is still active/fertile to know what a fertilized yolk looks like.

One thing I did see in your question is you have only one female and seven drakes? That is dangerous for the hen, IMO. I've seen drakes be brutal in mating hens, especially if there are not enough hens. A friend of mine had ducks but my experience with them is limited.

 

[aart]

Quote: Water test is used for 'overdue' hatching......if movement in live embryo, it's easy to see the movement if egg is floating in water.
But, yes, very different than the 'old egg' float test.