Three bullseyes! Anybody ever seen this?

[gritsar]

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If you asked my little hen Tinker, she'd probably agree with you. She's the one that walks around with a look on her face like...oh boy, here he comes again!

 

[SpringChickens]

3 bullseyes... that wouldn't be the roo... it would be the hen!! If it's just a dot, it's a germinal disc. Maybe 3 of her yolks fused? No idea!

 

[gritsar]

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No, these are the bullseye that you see with a fertilized egg - a white dot surrounded by a paler ring surrounded by another white ring, not just the dot.

I recently sent some eggs to another BYCer for a test hatch. Out of the 16, 14 were fertile. Of those 8 or nine hatched. One roo to 14 hens.

 

[Mrs.Puff]

I had an egg once that had about 6 or 7 bullseyes. From a production red. And all my roos are banties!

 

[SpringChickens]

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No, these are the bullseye that you see with a fertilized egg - a white dot surrounded by a paler ring surrounded by another white ring, not just the dot.

I guess it's possible that the sperm makes a white dot too... did they all look exactly the same? Probably was polyspermy... where more than one sperm enters the egg. It's rare, but it happens in all species.

 

[speckledhen]

Yes! I had one and posted pics on BYC a long time ago. Three distinct bullseyes. Very unusual, but it does happen.

Found it!! Post #4 in this thread has a picture: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=20159&p=1

 

[gritsar]

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Yep, that's pretty much what it looked like Cyn; the outside rings were very distinct. Huge yolk too.