The Middle Tennessee Thread

[Jenski]

OK Tennessee folks, maybe you can offer up your advice on fertile eggs. (I should probably put this on another forum, but I trust your opinions here, LOL!)

Here's what I've been seeing in my breakfast eggs:

Is that a fertile egg I see?? Surely not. These hens have not been with roos!


I've been hatching eggs for three years. . . . maybe I just never pay attention to my eatin' eggs and they always look like this?

 

[emmalynn]

Jenski- I would think from the pics that the answer is yes. Maybe she has a long distance love?!?

 

[FarmerVal]

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That's what my silkie's egg looked like when I cracked them, and they looked fertile to me. But I'm very new to this

I have 4 eggs in the incubator and they've been in for 2 days. So in a couple more days I'll candle and we'll see!

 

[Gold Griffin Chicken Mom]

Jenski, I see what you're talking about. I thought that meant all of my hens' eggs were fertile. You need to look up the fertile versus non-fertile egg pictures that one of the moderators (Speckled Hen?) posted. There is a slight difference.

Your pictures do not show bullseyes. The fertile ones I've looked at in my own kitchen are visibly different.

I'll go back to lurking in SE Virginia.

 

[NellaBean]

Doesn't anyone in tennessee want ducks? SOMEONE BUY MY DUCKS.

Welsh harlequin breeding quad. 10 months old. All laying.

Also decided to sell my colored eggers as a small flock....but they aren't cheap. 2 wheaten marans hens, 2 welsummer hens, 1 wheaten ameraucana hen (true) and 1 blue wheaten ameraucana rooster (true).

Instant olive egger proding flock. Hatch the dark eggs for nice olive eggers and hatch the blue eggs for pure wheaten or blue wheaten ameraucanas. Pull the wellies and by crossing the wheaten marans and blue wheaten rooster you will get all wheaten and blue wheaten olive eggers.

Tempting?

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Jenski, I'm voting non-fertile. Mine have a more defined bullseye as well. I'll try to get a picture for you when I get home.

Don't you want a rooster for that pen though? I can totally hook you up!

 

[CluckyJay]

Thanks!

Its nice to have the sound and stench of chicken in the house again, LOL.

If I could afford it and they were Khaki Campbells or Muscovies I'd take them Nella. I've been looking for Khaki Campbells and can't seem to find any local. I'd hate to have to pay $40.00 to have a hatchery ship some, LOL. Muscovies are pretty easy to get here.

Good luck finding someone to buy them!

Fertile or not, those are some yummy-looking eggs!

Oh my Val! They are just too cute.

 

[SimplySplendidSilkies]

I know I kinda pop in and out of this thread but I have been very busy buying a house in Nt. GA. For those who know the struggles I have been through, my house shopping days are OVER!

Here is the Link to m facebook album. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=283935&id=711968879&l=7c494ab487
Connie this is the house I was telling you about on the drive down to Dalton. I guess it was meant to be after all. I drove down on Mon. and put our bid in and they accepted it on Tuesday morning. Now the real work begins. I am sad to leave TN but I have also waited a very long time for my perfect house.

 

[CluckyJay]

I love your new house! Imagine a few stray hens sitting o the porch rail. lol Nice shrubs too!

 

[FarmerVal]

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Beautiful home! There are few things in life that I hate more than house shopping...