so of my three girls only one is laying. Same color, one egg almost every day. She becan laying about three weeks ago. I've gotten 4 double yokes in that time and from what I read that's supposed to be rare. Someone better tell her that. Anyway, how do you tell if an egg is fertile when it's first laid? I'm not planning on hatching, I was just curious. Also, anyone know if Cayuga's have a specific time period for laying or is it all year? I had someone tell me I will be overloaded with eggs in the spring and am curious if that's true.
hi, you will only know if an egg is fertile after atleast 7 days of incubating, alfo the peak time that duck eggs be most fertile is the spring.
you can tell by the bullseye in the middle of the egg...there was a post about this a while back....hmmm let me see if i can find it... Here it is... https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16008 Its chickens, but I would bet ducks are similar.
