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Quote: Well, so much for the egg shape theory (again). I prefer the rounder eggs and that is what I hatch, but with one exception I have ALWAYS gotten more cockerels. This is the final and correct count as I had missexed some birds initially as did a friend who had taken some. I had...

That is true. Unlike Mammals where the male determines the sex. With that in mind I'm thinking of hatching only eggs from hens who produce an abundance of girls. Since I'm only doing birds for replacement and friends my hatches aren't large and I put eggs in the incubator of only the hens I...

Although all of my set eggs were round, now that the final results are in I wound up with more cockerels. (So what else is new?) Out of 17 hatched eggs, I got 7 pullets. The only shining stars were my California Greys who produced only three boys from 11 eggs. I may try hatching some of...

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Same eggs Same incubator same hatch date Same project All should be girl eggs according to shape The sex of some will be obvious upon hatching, the others I expect to have to wait a bit.

I have eggs in the incubator now, hatch date 5/7. 11 of them are from my late last spring's hens so mothers only over the pullet stage, 10 months old when I set the eggs. These 11 eggs should produce sex links so I will know the sex right away when they hatch. The rest of the eggs are from my...

I tested this theory twice, sort of accidently. I had just gotten an incubator and wanted to order eggs which would be shipped. Everyone (including the person I wanted to buy the eggs from) told me to practice with my own (free) eggs first until I learned what I was doing rather than practice...