Is my eggs fertile?

[kristianhope18]

First I wanna start off by saying I had a terrible hatch yesterday! ;-( I ordered 16 cream Legbar eggs from California an I'm in eastern Kentucky! Only 2 hatched and I had to help the 2nd out that eventually died! So I'm left with just 1 ;-( I threw out 12 clear eggs ;-( I bought a Mille fluer show quality rooster in late April that was no chick he was a few weeks old maybe a month at the time? But I have a Mille hen that's been laying fertile eggs! I bought her from a man who had a trio about a month ago so im guessing she's no longer fertile from the rooster before! My question is should I incubate her eggs now? She's in with my rooster I bought! Is he old enough to breed? Or should I just eat the eggs? Again I bought him in late April and he was fully feathered at the time! They've been in the same cage for over a month!

 

[deathfromabove]

Have you seen him mount her if not eggs are not fertile. After you see him mount wait a week then start incubate them

 

[kristianhope18]

Yea he's tried I've noticed twice when I've opened the door I just wasn't sure if he was old enough they r Mille fluer d'uccles!

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Well, in your first post you said the hen was laying fertile eggs

Are you seeing a bulls eye when you crack them open? If so, then they're good to go! I have a few Mille Fleur D'Uccle cockerels almost the same age as yours, maybe a little older, and I hadn't noticed them trying to mate the females yet. But, they recently moved to a bachelor pen and I've got other older roosters in the breeding pen, so that may have something to do with that.

Anyway, crack a couple open and look for the bulls eye on the yolk or pop some in the incubator and see if they're fertile when you candle them at a week old

 

[kristianhope18]

I've been just sticking them in the incubator! I'm not positive on his age! He's just as big as my female or bigger and she's been laying a while! I bought her from a trio and she had mated before I bought her! That was a month ago though and I moved them to a new cage and she stopped laying for 2 weeks and just started back so I'm positive they r not fertile from the rooster before! My rooster however I bought from a woman who shows them in tn and he was feathered out and pretty big late April? I just wonder if he's old enough here he is!