14th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

[3KillerBs]

I'm sure your right.
I'd might be tempted to chill mine if I believed it.
My current ratio is about 3/1 in favor of males.

I've had all sorts of statistical imbalances, but I presume that they'll even out over enough chicks hatched.

 

[janiedoe]

I don't believe that because if it were actually true then commercial hatcheries would use temperature controls to hatch mostly females.

I'm sure your right.
I'd might be tempted to chill mine if I believed it.
My current ratio is about 3/1 in favor of males.

Come to think of it, I should get all females. I set round eggs.

 

[Kiki]

I've read that female embryos are less likely to survive hot temperatures than males, and that females are more likely to survive chilled eggs. Let us know if you hatch males from the remaining eggs.

Janie I laughed out loud this time.

 

[janiedoe]

I've had all sorts of statistical imbalances, but I presume that they'll even out over enough chicks hatched.

Idk. I've been hatching for 5 years, and only one year did I get a 50/50 rate.
Maybe it's the texas heat.

 

[janiedoe]

Janie I laughed out loud this time.

Sorry. People think Sarah Jane, but it's actually Sarcastic Jane.

 

[3KillerBs]

Idk. I've been hatching for 5 years, and only one year did I get a 50/50 rate.
Maybe it's the texas heat.

Well, the blue-black-splash ratios are improving.

It took me 5 hatches to get my first splash, then I got extra splashes in this year's first hatches -- bringing the ratio just about right.

So the sexes ought to even out eventually as well.

 

[janiedoe]

Well, the blue-black-splash ratios are improving.

It took me 5 hatches to get my first splash, then I got extra splashes in this year's first hatches -- bringing the ratio just about right.

So the sexes ought to even out eventually as well.

But I'm old...I don't have that kinda time left!

 

[janiedoe]

Why do y'all think hens pick up straw and drop it over themselves when laying?
(Sitting out in the hen house having deep thoughts.)

 

[ronott1]

The candling pictures are awesome!

 

[janiedoe]

The candling pictures are awesome!

Well, not mine.