This is a fertile egg, no?

[walkswithdog]

And self-fertile reptile eggs (thread hijack) actually do hatch some of the time. So do a wide variety of amphibian eggs.

It's a way for nature to self-perpetuate when conditions are otherwise negative for species survival - all hens in an area - happens in every egg laying species, only in most of them now the embryoes don't fully develop.

Because temperature and food availability can result in a low incidence of males or fertile males, it's a "back up". Nature likes safe guards. I'm not entirely sure that no, self-fertile chicken eggs ever hatch. I'd, in fact, be surprised if some tiny few didn't hatch out even now.

Nature is some powerful stuff. To quote Jurassic Park - Life finds a way.

 

[77horses]

yep. see the large circle to the right? If it weren't the circel would be smaller.

 

[speckledhen]

Fertile, yes.

 

[DouglasPeeps]

definitely fertile!

 

[scrapmom5]

Sorry Ninjapoodles for the hijack of your thread. I really did start to think that perhaps my duck was getting friendly with my pullets. After all my egg did look fertile.

Now back to the original question; Your egg is definately fertile. And again my apologies for the hijack.

 

[the1much]

looks like its missing a shell,,,hehe

id say it was.

 

[walkswithdog]

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You is a seriously funny badman. (grammar intended)

 

[the1much]

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You is a seriously funny badman. (grammar intended)

we had an egg that stopped growin at 2 weeks,, i broke it open to just have a real close look,,wife came out and i said "look at this, wonder why its dead",,,she says,, "it doesnt have its shell dumb@** ,,,,hehe

so i thought i would pass on the "wisdom" she so thoughtfully gave me.

 

[ninjapoodles]

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No problem! My question was already answered, and yours was an interesting tangent!

 

[dancingbear]

Oh yeah, fertile, for sure.

Ok I have questions about the self fertile eggs. (learn new stuff here every day!) The ones that try to develop, but don't make it, is there a particular stage they typically get to, where they stop, or is it all different stages? Is there anyway you'd know you were trying to hatch self-fertile eggs, other than not having a roo?

The reason I'm wondering is that I seem to have a really high fertility rate, even with about 15 hens per roo. But lately, my hatch rate has been a lot lower, though I get initial development of almost all the eggs. The ones that don't hatch seem to peter out at about 15 days or a little past that. So now I'm wondering if I'm setting a bunch of self-fertile eggs.