How to tell whether an egg is fertilised or not

[@brandi8040]

This was the most fascinating and informative video! Understanding the anatomy of an egg is going to be so helpful when my family and I go to raise our own chickens! Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video!

[@chickensinmygarden]

You're welcome. Thanks for your compliment

[@albacorao]

Always learning from you, Madame. Excelent videos. Regards from Pedro in Lisbon

[@chickensinmygarden]

Thank you. And best regards to you too 🙂

[@ireneo9544]

This is the my best video, well explained with samples. I checked one of my eyes and the germinal sac was 4mm. I was so happy. At least I can differentiate between fertile and non fertile eggs. Can't wait to welcome my chicks.

[@chickensinmygarden]

That's excellent! Lots of people don't know how to do that but you now can. Best wishes for when your chicks arrive. (I have several videos about raising chicks that you can check out in the meantime kzbin.info/aero/PLZkmuqBJd8WRH4aHzwWd-h4gHqjIyZb0O but I'm sure you'll do well. Have a great day 🐥

[@LANNOULA]

Very informative and well laid out video. Thanks!

[@chickensinmygarden]

Thank you. I appreciate that 😊

[@wilsonvalladares4661]

this is such a great video. thank you for explaining clearly everything. i'm a newbie trying to hatch eggs in an incubator. this video deserves an award.

[@chickensinmygarden]

That's great to hear, thank you. Good luck with your hatching. It is so exciting, although sometimes a bit of an emotional roller-coaster. You might find some of the other videos in my Hatching playlist useful Hatching and raising baby chicks: kzbin.info/aero/PLZkmuqBJd8WRH4aHzwWd-h4gHqjIyZb0O

[@wilsonvalladares4661]

@ thanks alot

[@samueljacopastoria]

Beautiful video. Very informative. Didn't have the faintest idea till date. These kind of videos deserves some sort of prizes .👌🙏

[@chickensinmygarden]

Thank you. Comments like yours are the best prize I could wish for 🙂

[@samueljacopastoria]

@@chickensinmygarden very humble answer😊

[@chickensinmygarden]

No indeed I mean it. It takes me about a month to make each video and I probably wouldn't bother if nobody watched them. And when someone reaches out to send an appreciative comment it really makes my day. Thank you. I hope your day is a happy one 🙂

[@samueljacopastoria]

@@chickensinmygarden A month for a video is quite painful but I think its worth it. That's why I adore watching these subjects. Please do come with more such videos. Am waiting. You have earned a subscriber today. 🙏😊

[@chickensinmygarden]

I do everything myself so it takes a long time. I've been doing them for a few years now so there are quite a few and most of them never go out of date. Do check out some of my others.

[@iamshaarifkhan]

Thank for this information , your videos are very informative

[@chickensinmygarden]

Thank you 🙂 It's good to hear that

[@joshuabellamy2488]

This was an amazing video!!! Answered all my questions!!

[@chickensinmygarden]

Excellent! Thanks for the feedback. Have a great day 🙂

[@DoubleQz]

Wonderful video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@chickensinmygarden]

Thank you! 😊

[@alphamoron8518]

Very informative and very nicely explained🎉

[@chickensinmygarden]

Thank you 🙂

[@loa81]

Well, another great, helpful tool. Thank you, Young Lady! Your excellent tutoring ensures we’ve all become “Egg-spurts”! I now have some of those beautiful Light Brahmas. I raised from chicks and sold 6 of the 8. I got that infectious chicken flu….I get too many chickens! I did make a tidy bundle on their sale to a good home. They remind me of ships on the water, moving about so regally until they spy me and clamor over for attention! Take care and Regards from New Mexico!

[@chickensinmygarden]

Egg-spurts! I love it! Those Light Brahmas are gorgeous, aren't they - the perfect mixture of dignity and silliness 🙂 It's great that you can sell some of your chicks - even more reasons to hatch more chickens, yay! 😄

[@LUKASSABET]

Thanks for nice video , Simple and easy, hopefully We will have some chucks this years 🥰

[@chickensinmygarden]

Excellent! Best wishes 😊

[@kingofinnocent]

It's very interesting to know about eggs, I'm glad to know the facts that it is simple and quickly clarified, Kudos for your Efforts 🎉✨

[@chickensinmygarden]

Thank you for that. Have a great day 🙂

[@kingofinnocent]

@@chickensinmygarden thank you, same to you too☺️

[@saethman]

I'm unable to not see the bullseye on the last one lol

[@chickensinmygarden]

Its amazing how quickly you learn to see it, and then you wonder how you couldn't see it before!

[@ruthlesstruthful]

​@@chickensinmygardenI can see a bullseye on the last one

[@chickensinmygarden]

It does look like a dark aura around the white dot but the dot is very small and tight and intensely white, if you know what I mean. Besides I have the advantage of knowing that that egg came from a flock of hens in my current urban property where there has never been a rooster 😀

[@vivianamargalot3427]

Another excellent vídeo!!! thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience, best regards

[@chickensinmygarden]

Thank you for watching and commenting 🙂

[@rd4469]

Great to know. Now I need to test to see if any of mine are fertilized. 😊

[@chickensinmygarden]

Fingers crossed for you 🙂

[@tjgplayz340]

Your videos are just simply amazing 😊

[@chickensinmygarden]

Thank you so much!

[@roselynsimbabure6853]

Excellent explanation mame. How can u see with candle?

[@chickensinmygarden]

Oh. Although it's called "candling" it doesn't use a candle. You need a light, preferably a strong, cool, focused light - an LED flashlight is ideal. Then something like a collar or tube between the light source and the egg - you can make a tube with your hands if necessary. In a dark place, hold the light source against the egg so no light shows except the light that goes into the egg through the shell. Even if the egg is infertile you should be able to make out the pale air bubble at one end of the egg. If there is a chick growing inside the egg you will see it as a very dark shape.

[@CR10.07]

I love your videos!! Thank you... I’m a newbie

[@chickensinmygarden]

Thank you 🙂 We are all learning all the time

[@ironrose888]

Awesome video. Now I’m trying to figure out how to tell if the eggs are fertilized without breaking the shell. We have been candling the eggs to see if they are red from a blood supply and an air sac. We hope that we can get some baby chicks soon. 😊

[@chickensinmygarden]

Tha t will work if they've been incubating for a few days. I reckon that with a good light I can tell at 3 or 4 days. It's pretty obvious by 7 days. 🙂

[@chickensinmygarden]

Check out Chickscope. It has some great information and pictures chickscope.beckman.illinois.edu/explore/embryology/

[@jessicamatias1130]

Such a great video. Thank you.

[@chickensinmygarden]

Thank you for watching 🙂

[@regisrules22]

Thank you for the video. I had no trouble finding the fertilized or not fertilized egg in all the ones you showed, except the last one (that you cracked). For some reason I thought it was fertilized. Watching the video again, I still was able to tell all except the last one. It still looked fertilized to me. What am I doing wrong?

[@chickensinmygarden]

Well done! That last one does look like it has a dark shadow around it but the white spot is definitely a tiny densely white irregular dot. Definitely no concentric rings like a bullseye. Not big enough. Not pale and indistinct.

[@desertrose777]

I don't know how I ended up with this video on my dashboard, but I enjoyed it. I don't own chickens, but I know a little bit more about eggs. ♥ Also, I only missed 2 from your quiz. Hope everyone is having a great day!

[@chickensinmygarden]

Here's another one about eggs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hF7cnIqfgMpomJo

[@chickensinmygarden]

In fact I have a whole playlist Yummy eggs: kzbin.info/aero/PLZkmuqBJd8WQ_J3n0tBd0VU1KgHmEIpdx

[@saltlifegull4091]

Outstanding! Just what I needed to know:))

[@chickensinmygarden]

Excellent! Now you can do it 🙂

[@AKlover]

Helpful! Thank You!

[@chickensinmygarden]

Great! Thanks for watching 🙂

[@j.j.oliphant9794]

That was awesome! Thank you

[@chickensinmygarden]

Glad you liked it 🙂

[@herb2968]

i like yr videos, thank you. one dumb question...is it ok to eat eggs which have been fertalized? common sense tells me that it is, but im just not sure.

[@chickensinmygarden]

Absolutely! Some people even say they prefer them, but truth is they are exactly the same as far as nutrition etc goes. The only caution is that if you have a rooster in your flock and therefore the eggs are likely to be fertilised, collect the eggs from the nest at least once a day - if they sit in the nest in warm weather or get sat on by other hens, the germinal disc could continue to develop to the point where you might prefer not to see and eat it - it would still be quite safe (the same as eating meat) but might not look very nice 🙂

[@herb2968]

@@chickensinmygarden thank you for your reply. ive just added a rooster to my (very) small flock and this is helpful information. (2 blue plymouth rocks, 2 barred plymouth rocks) . i live in the pocono mountains, Pennsylvania, united states, fyi. I really enjoy your channel, which i found about a year ago.

[@chickensinmygarden]

Thank you. I love finding out where my subscribers live. We all have different challenges and blessings, but we all receive so much from caring for our chickens 🙂

[@herb2968]

@@chickensinmygarden Amen! ive been blessed in so many ways! now raising my 2 barred rocks as chicks (theyre about 3 weeks now). may our Father in heaven keep you and bless you in these uncertain times. I pray you wil be blessed with truth and discernment in these days. we are in the season sister, stay strong in the Lord always.

[@annlewis7279]

Not a dumb question. I scrolled through the comments looking to see if that question was asked.

[@tania8046]

Love you tutorials. So looking forward to raising some chicks.

[@chickensinmygarden]

Chicks are so much fun 🙂

[@heatherk8931]

Thank you for the perfect video, although I was wrong on the very last egg, I did well with your discussion 😊 I'm in Northern California where it's terribly hot. The feed video was also helpful. You have a new subscriber!.🌼🐤

[@chickensinmygarden]

Thank you! That's well done on identifying the fertilised eggs. Stay chill 🙂

[@loa81]

Thank you once again, Young Lady! With your tutoring, we are now all ‘Egg-spurts’! Thank you, I certainly have no doubts my little Bantam rooster services even the big girls. Regards from New Mexico…

[@chickensinmygarden]

I read somewhere, quite recently, that bantams are typically more fertile than the heavy breeds

[@loa81]

@@chickensinmygarden I’m not doubting your information, he’s really a randy one.✅

[@MAROC32]

Good luck and continued success Good luck, great video Great video, good luck and continued success

[@chickensinmygarden]

Thank you. Best wishes to you 🙂

[@sithembelogamede2402]

Hi thanks for the video...but my question is how do i tell by just looking the egg without breaking it..i want to hatch them with much higher success rate

[@chickensinmygarden]

There are only three ways to tell if an egg is fertilised. 1. Break it open and look at the nucleus 2. Incubate it and see if it grows a chick 3. Use some amazing million-dollar high tech equipment to look inside the egg, like x-rays look inside a body. The fertility rate is pretty constant for one hen and rooster pair over several weeks so if you open all her eggs for a week you will have a very good idea of what her fertility rate will be for the next week. But your hatch rate is influenced by many other factors apart from the fertility rate. If you haven't already seen it, check out this video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKTWamStfqmDg68si=dxqyL766TxrtaanJ

[@vickyannpaintingwithoils]

You are by far my favorite "crazy chicken lady," as I call myself. I could never go back to not having chickens. We are having a chicken cabin built and I plan to triple my flock and put the predator fencing around it. Gates will open up into a predator proof fence with gate, and the inner fencing of that rectangular run will be around my garden. I will let the chickens in after season to compost it for me. In the mean time they have the whole run to weed the perimeter of my garden. I am having so much fun with this. One of my hens hatched five Ayam Cemani/Silver Laced Wyandotte chicks. They all are a happy little flock. I have another broody. I am going to separate her and let her hatch just one egg so she gets over it. It is too hot for her to still be diligently laying on nothing. Any tips for breaking broodiness? Or am I on the correct path? Love your videos. God bless you.

[@chickensinmygarden]

That sounds wonderful! I do have a video about how to stop a hen being broody - kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIqbiJumj9mVg9U Maybe it will help. Best wishes to you and all your chickens

[@brink3616]

Does this method also work on goose eggs?

[@chickensinmygarden]

I haven't tried it with goose eggs but it works for duck eggs and I believe it's the same for eggs from all birds

[@funny11744]

there are product from chicken embryo- laminine. How healthy is to eat frozen embryo without boiling or cooking?

[@chickensinmygarden]

I've never heard of that, but I don't see any health issues with that as long as the embryos are clean and from a healthy flock - the same as eating raw eggs or other raw meat.

[@chickensinmygarden]

I have found a commercial product called Laminine. It's a processed product comprising mainly amino acids. You would probably get more benefits from eating actual eggs, and eggs would be a lot cheaper.

[@funny11744]

@@chickensinmygarden thanks, that is what I intend to replace their product with only 55% embryo. the big question is that if I need to boil the egg? well- in this case the vitamins, growth factors could be destroyed, I could freeze the embrio then try to eat , like original process, but I am afraid is not healthy.

[@chickensinmygarden]

I'm not a nutritionist so I couldn't really be sure, but it seems to me that the difference between cooked vs raw embryo would be the same as the difference between raw vs cooked egg and also the same as the difference between raw and cooked chicken meat. If you only eat eggs and meat raw (for whatever reason) then eat embryos raw. If you eat cooked eggs or meat then cook your embryos. What I do not understand is why you want particularly to eat embryos.

[@jennifermiller2676]

What is red blood dot inside egg mean ?

[@chickensinmygarden]

It just means there was a little bleed inside the chicken when the egg was released from the ovary and some blood ended up in the egg. It's just blood. It doesn't really mean anything. It's normal. It's safe to eat. It does not have anything to do with whether the egg is fertile or not.

[@kristiansagmo9391]

Im gonna sell 30 duck eggs 21 april and started to collect them on monday so the oldest eggs will be around 11 days old do you think thats ok? I am storing them at the right temperature and turning them

[@chickensinmygarden]

If I was buying eggs I would expect them to be less than a week old. The chances of successfully hatched 11 day old eggs are quite low - worth a try if that's all I had but not very fair to pay full price for, in my opinion 🙂

[@rayocaballo6122]

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[@chickensinmygarden]

Thank you 🙂 I only make about one video a month but most of them don't go out of date so it's good to watch the others 🙂

[@rayocaballo6122]

@@chickensinmygarden Thank you for passing on all that knowledge It’s the greatest gift you can give

[@kathyplamann9502]

I rinsed off my eggs when I got them out of the coop. I have roosters. Will the eggs hatch since I robed them off?

[@kathyplamann9502]

Rinsed* them

[@chickensinmygarden]

Well they still might but without their protective bloom they have a higher risk of becoming contaminated and rot. If you have an option, I would suggest collecting other eggs.

[@liseann9163]

Your amazing

[@chickensinmygarden]

Thank you, thank you very much 😉

[@liseann9163]

@@chickensinmygarden I am brand new to genetics and breeding. I am in 3rd time watching your series. I am even watching them at slow speed. I have learning disabilities and am an old dog. But your videos are the best. I am slowly starting to understand. I am standing in my kitchen, cracking eggs trying to identify fertilized eggs. Looks like a science lab. Thank you

[@liseann9163]

@@chickensinmygarden can I check eggs that have been sitting on my counter for a week, or do they have to be freshly laid to see dark fertilized ring? So far none of mine are fertilized

[@chickensinmygarden]

You can certainly check eggs that have been sitting on your counter. Indeed you can check any egg before you start to cook it. If all the eggs are infertile then I would ask where you got the eggs from. Supermarket eggs are almost always all infertile. Only eggs from a flock of hens plus at least one rooster are likely to be fertile.

[@CatherineDavy]

I thought the last one was also fertilized. Am I wrong?

[@chickensinmygarden]

That's obviously a tricky one. But the egg was laid by a hen who had never seen a rooster in her entire life so it can't be 🙂

[@bobmccarron58]

Bloom: "cuticle" (synonym) 🥚

[@chickensinmygarden]

Absolutely! 🙂

[@SusanLBritt]

Can you show how to tell without opening i

[@chickensinmygarden]

Are you asking about that "very expensive lab equipment" that I mention at the beginning of the video?

[@SusanLBritt]

@@chickensinmygarden no .... by candling ??

[@chickensinmygarden]

Oh I see, sorry. I'm sure I have some pictures of candling in some of my videos about hatching chicks Hatching and raising baby chicks: kzbin.info/aero/PLZkmuqBJd8WRH4aHzwWd-h4gHqjIyZb0O In essence it's very simple - in a dark room hold a bright (but cool, not hot) light against the egg. If there is a chick developing inside you will see dark patches and what looks like spider web lines (the veins). If the egg is infertile all you see is the pale blob of the yolk. The earliest I can tell is after about 4 days of incubation but usually people candle after about a week. By then the veins should be very obvious. There is an image of candling an infertile egg at minute 4 of the video "Why did the egg not hatch". And there are some still pictures of what you would see at various days of incubation in the video "How does a chick hatch out of the egg ". I hope that helps.

[@SusanLBritt]

@Chickens in my garden i hatch A LOT of chickens ... but i can't tell whats fertile for sure till day 9 .

[@chickensinmygarden]

It is easier with eggs that have white shells. And a bright light helps - these days there are plenty of bright white LEDs that don't produce heat. The little box I use is just a homemade box with a hole in it and a LED light pointing at the hole. I hold the egg against the hole and can see what's inside. I've hatched 64 batches of chickens in my incubator, mostly a dozen in each batch, and I love to watch the development, so I would have candled all of those thousands of eggs at least twice. The first sign I see (only with white eggs this) is that the yolk just looks different - somehow softer. I think it's the embryo disrupting the cell membrane. And then I see the tiny spider web veins and I know for sure.

[@luckienuckie]

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[@lawrencefarmer267]

I’m sorry your videos good but I had to turn it off the music got to me

[@chickensinmygarden]

Thanks for the feedback. I very seldom have music in the background because I find it distracting too. I only had music for the last 2 minutes of this video because I wasn't saying anything. Thanks again. I really appreciate knowing when you don't like something, as much as when you do like something. 🙂

[@lawrencefarmer267]

@@chickensinmygarden I don’t listen to me I know you put time and effort to make the videos and I don’t want to criticize for the music

[@chickensinmygarden]

No, truly, I always like to know whatever people think 🙂