Is this egg fertilized

[Isadora]

So, are we all stumped? IF I have a male then it has to be 1 of these 3. All of my other older birds are laying and invested them lay. My younger ones are 2 weeks and 7 weeks. The 7 week olds have no comb or wattles yet so I'm pretty sure they're female also.

I'm not good at telling the gender, unless it's super obvious. Why don't you post these pictures over in the breed/gender identification section?

 

[aart]

Here is an interesting article on parthenogenesis. I remembered this from several years back but it took a lot of Goggle to come up with that name.

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/artic...normal-fertilization-and-embryonic-mortality/

It appears to be more common in certain flocks of chickens and turkeys but it is possible for a female chicken or turkey to lay a fertile egg without a male around. It's rare and most of the time the embryo quickly dies if the egg is incubated. But it is possible to actually get a chick to hatch.

Perhaps something of this nature happened, rare though it is.