Is This Egg Infertile or Fertile?

[LilyLeghorn]

thanks!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

YES! i checked another egg today, and it's fertile for sure! I'm going to hatch them!

have you hatched a lot before? if not here are my notes... https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101
also feel free to join us in the incubating thread, stop in and let us know whats in the bator! Anyone is welcome and its cool because someone is always checkin in on the thread too! oh and its not just about shipped eggs anymore! its about hatching chickens and making friends! https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ell-detatched-shipped-eggs/8860#post_10805514
I wish you the best!

 

[missnu01]

They don't look fertile to me...I thought my eggs were fertile, but I was just seeing the blastoderm, which is what you see there on your eggs...Apparently there will be a slightly faint white ring around the little white glob, giving it a bullseye appearance that I don't see on any of the pictures of your eggs. Anyway I thought my eggs were fertile by looking at the yolk dots, and it turns out i was wrong...

 

[missnu01]

i could of course be wrong, but I am thinking infertile...I am not sure that a 4 month old cockerel is able to fertilize eggs...give him another couple months and he'll be a feathered fertilizing machine.

 

[LilyLeghorn]

Sally Sunshine, yes I have hatched before, but not that much. Thank you for the tips!
missnu01, yes, the picture I posted was not fertile, but the newest one I checked was fertile for sure. And he already seems like a fertilizing machine... chasing both of my hens down and mounting, even though the 3 year old is almost twice his size! And now she's laying fertile eggs

 

[missnu01]

Oh ok,..well as long as the eggs you have now are fertile then what the hey..have at it...