Important question about fertile eggs.........oh hoping and excited...

[Tsagirl]

Ok so I guess my frizzle layed her first egg yesterday, though I did not find one today.
My bantams are now almost 5 months old and I have 2 silke roos(not crowing yet...hmmmmm) and yes they are roos. LOL!

Anyway the roos have not been caught in the act of doing anything to the hens, and I thought that at this age they would just be shooting blanks anyway.
Well I decided to open up one of the frizzle eggs...
and guess what A BULLSEYE! A fertile egg! How is this possible? I mean is it possible?
I looked at Speckled hens charts of a fertile and INfertile eggs and it is a fertile egg.
Maybe I am imagining?

Please tell me if anyone has had this experience at all.

 

[asher]

Maybe they are just very modest about doing their business. ;-)

 

[4-H chicken mom]

 

[Tsagirl]

ya think? I thought they had to crow before they did the "wild thing". And I have also read on here that they have to be a year old? Is this true??

 

[asher]

No clue on the crowing thing, but the 1yr thing is absolutely untrue.

 

[can you hear me now?]

I don;t know about the shooting blanks part but it took my bantam cochin a year to make the coveted cockle doodle doo!!!!!!!!

 

[DouglasPeeps]

Too funny! My hens and roo are just over 5 months old. They hens have been laying for just over a week now. I just cracked open 4 eggs and 2 out of the 4 of them ARE fertile! I have studied Speckled Hens post as well. Because of that it was very easy to tell that these 2 eggs are fertile!

 

[Tsagirl]

Wow that is exciting on your end and mine!
I will be going on vacaton for a week and then I might just pop them in the incubator to see if I can get a baby sizzle out of all of this.

That will be so awsome!

 

[Myst4]

At that age they are teenagers aren't they? You never know what they are doing behind your back. They are very good at sneaking around

 

[Mom 2em All]

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Yes, typical teens- acting innocent when you are watching..

Good luck with the new eggs. I wish Carmen would start laying , already. She is too busy being a bossy lady. A SPARROW landed in their yard and she fluffed up and charged across the yard to scare it off. A sparrow, for goodness sake.