No bullseye. are they fertile?

[doublejfarm]

Ok so I am a chicken novice. I read the sticky about the fertile eggs having a bullseye. My eggs don't have that, but I have a one year old (possibly younger) rooster that wears all four of my hens out very regularly. He's a real porn star. So what's the deal? I would like to incubate just for the experience, but I don't want to waste my time with unfertile eggs

 

[Razadia]

Just bumping. Maybe someone will give you an answer.

 

[7L Farm]

Gotta have the bullseye thats the sperm that fertilizes the eggs .

 

[Ceinwyn]

Infertile turkey egg

fertile turkey egg

If your rooster is a year old and your hens have been laying for at least six weeks with no fertility I'd say you need to replace your rooster.


All images taken from:
http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/Avian/pfs32.htm

 

[doublejfarm]

Hey y'all thanks I guess I will give it a few more weeks. I haven't had them but about a month

 

[arabianequine]

Someone just posted this link on my thread today you may want to take a look at it.

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

 

[cmom]

These pictures came from another thread but I don't remember which thread. I tried to take pictures with my camera but I just don't have a good enough camera to get a good clear closeup so I use these pics as a guide as they are excellent pictures.

Infertile egg.

Fertile egg

 

[klf73]

Quote:
it was this thread by speckledhen
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16008

 

[arabianequine]

Quote:
Why do some eggs have that white film over the yolk...looks gross too?