Does this egg look fertilized? Thought I had all hens!

[FeatherToes0328]

It was hot that day, but it wasn’t out there more than a few hours (cleaned the coop in the morning and found it early afternoon).

Ive attached some pics - I’m pretty sure two of barred rocks are laying. The EEs would be most suspicious I guess, but the gray one still has a pale comb, and the gold one’s comb and face just got bigger/redder this week so I thought she would lay soon. No crowing from anyone, and none have any spurs starting.

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Love your coop! Welcome to BYC!

 

[Eightchickens]

I love your little picnic table feeder!

Thank you! It was a gift from a friend (she got it on Amazon) - it’s perfect for snacks!

 

[Eightchickens]

I've had eggs that I swore weren't fertilized but threw them in the incubator as heat sinks to even out temperature spikes, and they wound up being fertile (with a higher than average fertility rate! And I had opened up six eggs looking for bullseyes.)

I would say throw these in an incubator or set up a diy Incubator. Within five days you'll be able to see if they're fertile and you have a mystery rooster to find.

I do have an old incubator in storage - I’ll have to bust it out!

 

[Eightchickens]

Spurs don't indicate gender, females can have spurs.

I just figured a rooster would probably be growing them by this age but I don’t know if that would actually be the case - I was up in the air on my EEs for a while and it was one of the things I was told to look for.

 

[Eightchickens]

Love your coop! Welcome to BYC!

Thanks so much! It’s a prefab I did so much updating on I might has well have just built one!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I just figured a rooster would probably be growing them by this age but I don’t know if that would actually be the case - I was up in the air on my EEs for a while and it was one of the things I was told to look for.

I find EEs really hard to gender ID sometimes. In fact I just started a thread yesterday abot a 12-week old chick we hatched that I thought was a pullet but now I'm pretty sure is a cockerel!

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I find EEs really hard to gender ID sometimes.

Isn’t there something about red on the wings? Like if they have that rusty red coloring they are cockerels? I swear I’ve read that several times on threads where people have “Ameraucanas” that turn out to be EEs

 

[BigBlueHen53]

That can be true. But my cockerel does not have that. He fooled me, lol!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Here he is:

No red leakage on the shoulders. Tiny comb. Wattles JUST starting to pop at almost 12 weeks. Tail feathers just now starting to curl. He had dainty little legs till about 3 days ago. Hackle (neck) feathers just starting to lengthen, and I did not notice the saddle feathers until yesterday.* Late-developing, sneaky little cockerel, lol!

*Edit* when someone pointed them out!

 

[Mother of Chaos]

It was hot that day, but it wasn’t out there more than a few hours (cleaned the coop in the morning and found it early afternoon).

Ive attached some pics - I’m pretty sure two of barred rocks are laying. The EEs would be most suspicious I guess, but the gray one still has a pale comb, and the gold one’s comb and face just got bigger/redder this week so I thought she would lay soon. No crowing from anyone, and none have any spurs starting.

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There’s a separate attachment on this first post that stayed in thumbnail size. It’s the EE.

Aren’t those awfully pointed gold feathers on the neck?