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    Silver Laced Wyandotte sexing

    Still looks like a she to me.
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    Hen is hiding from Rooster

    To update on my scared hen. She is much more comfortable now. She has even become attached to one of my roosters. She allows him to breed her now with no upset. She is still a bit odd. She is now scared of the younger hens that she herself used to harass. Apparently they remember that and now...
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    Hen is hiding from Rooster

    The (2)roosters as well as the scared hen are 5 months. A total of 18 hens at the moment. 1 rooster is breeding and is behaving like a very good rooster. The other rooster is slower to mature and is just more shy and is not breeding anyone yet. I'm not going to debate the meanings of "bossing"...
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    Sexing eggs???

    Fair enough. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. And there is nothing wrong with disagreement.
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    Sexing eggs???

    I'm sorry but the one from 1906 is NOT a study. It's an opinion, to quote them "absurd" but yet they offer no evidence. No tests.
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    Sexing eggs???

    yes a lot of it only a scientist would understand but here's a few key points, hope it helps The present study was carried out to determine the sex of the fertilized white layer eggs with using morphological measurements. A total of 300 Super Nick White Layer (54 wks of age) eggs were...
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    Sexing eggs???

    Here's a pic of eggs laid by the same hen a few days apart. I can see why sexing by shape doesn't work for some people if your hens don't have a difference like this in their eggs. I'm thinking that it may be similar to feather sexing( doesn't work on all breeds).
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    Sexing eggs???

    http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-635X2013000300006 Here is a link to a study that was done on egg shape determining sex, they also included size and volume in the study. It's a bit hard to understand in spots with all the scientific jargon but worth a read. They...
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    Sexing eggs???

    In an earlier post you said you were running an experiment. I'm wondering why you bother if you are so sure egg shape sexing doesn't work? To answer your question, yes I have a few hens that I know for sure which eggs are theirs and they do vary from more rounded to more pointy. They do have...
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    Hen is hiding from Rooster

    Lol! Yes I have had the same thought. Especially when she started squawking at me until I paid attention to her. Thus my frustration. Then I see the fear in her eyes when a roosters comes near and I cave
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    Hen is hiding from Rooster

    If anyone has had success getting a hen over her fear of roosters I would love to hear about it. No more "alternatives" please. I am strictly looking for ways to get my hen over her fear. Not what to do with her if she can't recover and behave normally I can figure that part out myself. I...
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    Sexing eggs???

    I expect it will never be an accepted method as their are so many variables at play. I just find it very interesting that some people report very good success rates. I need to test it much more myself to see if I will be one of those lucky few consistently or not.
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    Hen is hiding from Rooster

    Ok getting over myself. I'm sure you didn't really mean to imply anything other than an alternative.
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    Hen is hiding from Rooster

    She is always on the top roost and she has always kinda been the odd one out in the flock. Definitely she doesn't seem to consider herself part of it even before she was traumatized by roosters. She never tries to boss larger hens though, just the young ones.
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    Hen is hiding from Rooster

    Wow that's one horrible rooster you had! It was an olive egger rooster that instigated my hen's rape but she was not injured just scared. I have been using mealworms to help bring her around and it does seem to help as long as the worms last anyway( not long). I have tried putting her in a...
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