Is this fertile?

[marnette]

I am wondering if it is fertile. I have never had one like this.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I am wondering if it is fertile. I have never had one like this.

It actually looks like not only fertile, but it's had a couple days of incubation. I'm pretty sure what you are seeing is the cell division early on in the incubation process.

 

[marnette]

It actually looks like not only fertile, but it's had a couple days of incubation. I'm pretty sure what you are seeing is the cell division early on in the incubation process.

Wow, I don't have a hen setting, but it's been in the mid 80's here. Could that temp cause that?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Wow, I don't have a hen setting, but it's been in the mid 80's here. Could that temp cause that?

Here is a chart that shows the actual development. To me it looks like the second pic:

According to this: http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/resources/egg_to_chick/procedures.html Embryos will develop at subnormal rates if the temp inthe egg reaches 80F