IS THIS A FERTILE EGG?? ***PICTURE attached***

[Half-a-dozen]

DH..........

ya see it really is ALL their fault- LOL LOL

anyway, he is taking much longer than expected in constructing our incubator soooo I had to use some of the eggs for by the time he gets the incubator done, up and running these will have been sitting out to long.

I cracked one open to see if I can tell if it was fertile or not. I heard a lot of you talk about a "bullseye" in the center if it is a fertile egg??? This is a picture of an egg 3 days sitting out waiting to go to the bator.
If ya look hard and close

you can see a lil white dot of ????
Is this what everyone means by a bullseye???

Could this have been fertile or am I just imagining things

Thanks for your help.

 

[AussieSharon]

Yes it's fertile.

 

[Half-a-dozen]

Ohhhh thank you, I AM SOOOOOOOOOOO EGGCITED!!!!!!!!!

yippie.....now all I have to do is light the fire under DH

Can't wait till we can make our own chickies!!!!

 

[MissPrissy]

All the eggs I see fertile have a much more pronounced donut ring. I don't think it is fertile.

Look at these photos speckledhen posted a while back.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16008

 

[AussieSharon]

hmmm well Miss Prissy knows way more than I do but it looks like some I cracked to check fertility and got a hatch from. There's only one good way to find out, incubate them! Best of luck

 

[ebonykawai]

The pic is kind of blurry. If you can see a circle within a circle, then it's fertile.

 

[speckledhen]

It's hard to say on that one. Some do look much more pronounced than the one in your pic, but then again, it has a more definite bullseye type look than just a small white dot. They don't all look identical, which can make it hard to say on some of them.

 

[Half-a-dozen]

Thanks everyone!

I looked at Speckledhen's post from some time ago and put a couple more pics on there (new ones and different egg) asking some questions about them.

Thanks again for your help!!

 

[NYREDS]

I think it's fertile but I don't think it will hatch.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

I think it's fertile...I would gather a few eggs and try hatching them out...at day 7 if you don't see any veining when candling you will know they aren't...got nothing to lose...