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Wow! Makes me wonder how people figured these things out, keeping birds that can coexist happily in a bachelor group seems more likely an achievable way to resolve the excess male issue for me.

Hmm, intriguing. Can’t find anything other than eating dark greens and avoiding alcohol sugar ect. to raise ph. Pretty sure nutritional intake affects it, too much milk can cause osteoporosis because the low ph prevents calcium uptake, I’ve seen this with my own birds laying soft shelled eggs...

@Penpal I had some issues with calcium uptake lowering the ph too much with probiotics so wouldn’t want to risk experimenting, current plan is a side by side with red clover but if they’re consciously dictating gender I doubt it’ll work. There’s someone on eBay selling a magnet on the end of a...

You are right about the female determining gender, also there is some evidence that they consciously decide. Maybe giving them phytoestrogens would be worth a try. Just found this.. In mammals, it’s the father (XY) that decides the sex of each offspring, the mother (XX) only ever able to...

Ooh thanks, that might explain why there’s a sometimes a disproportionate ratio for months at a time as the temperature changes with the seasons, if any of my hens are temperature switched it might hamper my experiment. I’ll look into it. I’ve got some Chinese liquorice growing but it won’t be...

I’ve read that hens can go through stages of laying eggs with an unusually high ratio of either male or female chicks that can last for months at a time. In humans the sole factor that determines the gender of offspring is the level of testosterone in the male, some foods are capable of...