My girls just started laying a week ago - they will be 20 weeks tomorrow. This morning I cracked one of the eggs open and I swear it looked fertilized. Little white dot at the top. Now, as far as I know I don't have any roosters. Surely I would know by now wouldn't I? So, is it possible for an egg to *look* fertilized when it in fact isn't? Which is more likely: that I have a rooster who doesn't look like a rooster at 20 weeks, or that I have an UNfertilized egg that looks like it has been fertilized? Just when I think I've got this chicken thing down they stump me again
a bullseye means fertilized, a white dot is unfertilized. so you might be okay! have you heard any crowing?
ok wait - when you said "bullseye" I thought you meant smack dab in the middle of the egg. Now I realize you were talking about rings like a bullseye (is that correct?). Just cracked open two more and I believe they are definitely fertilized. So strange... who is my rooster that refuses to make himself known?
Post pics of your flock. There are good pictures of fertile eggs somewhere on the incubating section, you could take a look and see I if that's what you're getting. Yep, bullseye can be any place on the yolk, but it's a center white spot with a ring of white around it. Very trick to see until you know what you're looking for.
