Correct me if I'm wrong, but the best way to check if an egg is fertilized is to crack it open and see if there is a bullseye on the yolk.
Someone I know insisted that if there are two CHALAZAE, then it is fertilized.
Fertilized - how to tell
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Killerbunny
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Re: Fertilized - how to tell
You are correct - there needs to be a bullseye.
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Re: Fertilized - how to tell
There are always two chalaza, that is what keeps the egg yolk more or less centered, nothing to do with fertility
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Re: Fertilized - how to tell
I knew it! Ha! (...is what I would like to say to that person)Ontario Chick wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 1:17 pmThere are always two chalaza, that is what keeps the egg yolk more or less centered, nothing to do with fertility
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Re: Fertilized - how to tell
yep it's the bullseye that gives it away. nothing else. well, unless you want to incubate and candle and see if it's developing. but no...there's always 2 chalazae....fertilized or not.....
yep, i would do that too...HA!
yep, i would do that too...HA!
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