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Here's the pics.

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They are in rows per hen that laid them. The top 2 rows I consider round and bottom are pointed. I am not sure how much detail that show. I have a couple more close ups but I don't think the detail improved.

They are separated in the incubator and ready to hatch Sunday.

After looking at the pics the green eggs could go either way with pointiness.
 
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Thanks so much, Chickapooh! Great idea on numbering them.
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I've just calculated their width ratios, and here's what I got:
Width/length ratio:
Egg 1: 74%
Egg 2: 70%
Egg 3: 72%
Egg 4: 74%
Egg 5: 74%
Egg 6: 78%
Egg 7: 80%
Egg 8: 80%
Egg 9: 77%
Egg 10: 77%
Egg 11: 71%
Egg 12: 76%
Forgive the extreme nerdiness here...
Based on the lowest being 70% and the highest being 80%, with a mean of 75%, everything above 75% would be "round". So, if we separated them accordingly, My hypothesis would be:
Hens: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12
Roos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11.
Shall we try it?
 
Now that I think about it, if the parameters vary per bird, we'd be looking at the following:
Hen 1: Mean-72% Potential hens: 1, 4, 5; Roos: 2, 3
Hen 2: Mean-79% Potential hens: 7, 8; Roos: 6
Hen 3: Mean-74% Potential hens: 9, 10, 12; Roos: 11

I can't think of any way to test both hypotheses at once, unless you can actually number the chicks as they come out...
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PS: How will you know which chicks come from which eggs?

Thanks so much for playing with me!
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I love this this will be so cool if enough people do it. So what if its an old wives tell , then we can prove it false but sometimes experments are fun just to do not beacuase of out come. I wish I had a bator and eggs right now I would join in. Keep us posted
And you could always put colored bands on the pointed egg chicks or mark the heads of roaunded egg chicks or whatever .
 

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