Riddle Me This

[FinalBlue]

Okay so riddle me this. My roo has been dead for 4-5 months (I was at college I don't know the exact day). Anyway so I was cracking open an egg we collected from my hens a few days ago. I found a fertilized egg and I mean we're talking beak and all-ish it was about 5-6 days into incubation. Don't ask me how it was so far along we collect daily so idk if it was missed or buried and became un-buried, and they get refrigerated within 24 hours of collection, but anyway can anyone explain this because I've got nothing for how the egg could have been fertilized.

 

[cavemanrich]

Maybe some of your friends are playing jokes on you... or it was conception by a visiting or Houdini type rooster.

 

[aart]

Well, if it was 5-6 days development (google chick development for comparison pics)
it obviously got missed on the daily collection(more than a few of them)...happens.

Where did you find it?
Do you free range?
Was it stinky rotten?
Are you positive it's a chicken egg?
Was the egg broken or intact?
Do you count your chickens when putting them up at night?....you'd miss one of it was sitting a nest in range area.

Sorry for all the Q's...am just curious and love solving a good 'riddle'.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

hmmmm that is curious.

Roosters sperm is able to fertilise many eggs in a hen at once but it's typically only about 2 weeks worth. Defiantly nothing close to 4 months.