There is an old wives tale that you can determine the sex of an unborn child by dangling a pencil with a needle and thread over the wrist of pregnant woman. I know of this because I used it to determine the sex of my children and have used it many many more times on others. So I decided to try...
Lately I have had several eggs hatch earlier than I had expected and so the eggs never were put on their sides in the hatcher. This was occurring because we kept taking clutches of eggs away from the hen(s) and they apparently had already started to incubate. Anyway, these little guys have...