A new method or myth-od ???? Lockdown SWEET Lockdown ;) day 18 of shapes and sexes batch

[Mschkweasnduck]

I live in a small rural town where almost everybody has chickens that has space and it is common knowledge that the long, pointy eggs are cockerels and the short, round eggs are pullets. Not only are the eggs supposed to be round for a pullet - if the top is bumpy it will be a cockerel. So the short, round, smooth-topped eggs are girls and the long, pointy, bumpy ones are boys. Of course, you have to see the eggs when they are relatively fresh to tell if they will be good for girls or not. All eggs get smooth after a while. I've hatched chicks before set for pullets according to this method, and all that lived were girls.

So, I guess it could be coincidental, but I think there might be something to it. 

well! You have just turned the rain off on my parade!!
I'm so curious! I read that is how hatcheries send you eggs that are guaranteed ....there has to be some way for a guarantee before the hatch...right?? Do hatcheries send out eggs? Well I read it somewhere you can order sexed eggs ....lol,now I'm doubting myself!! Ha haha . Ty you all for gabbin with me .
We shall see....soon
Possibly tomorrow if I can get a chick whisperer to sex them thru pics

excited excited!!!

 

[bantamrooster]

well! You have just turned the rain off on my parade!!
I'm so curious! I read that is how hatcheries send you eggs that are guaranteed ....there has to be some way for a guarantee before the hatch...right?? Do hatcheries send out eggs? Well I read it somewhere you can order sexed eggs ....lol,now I'm doubting myself!! Ha haha . Ty you all for gabbin with me .
We shall see....soon
Possibly tomorrow if I can get a chick whisperer to sex them thru pics

excited excited!!!

You dont need a chick whisperer.
Put your wedding band on a string and hold it steady above the chicks head.
If it spins in a circle its a pullet. If it swings back and forth its a cockerel.

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

well! You have just turned the rain off on my parade!!
I'm so curious! I read that is how hatcheries send you eggs that are guaranteed ....there has to be some way for a guarantee before the hatch...right?? Do hatcheries send out eggs? Well I read it somewhere you can order sexed eggs ....lol,now I'm doubting myself!! Ha haha . Ty you all for gabbin with me .
We shall see....soon
Possibly tomorrow if I can get a chick whisperer to sex them thru pics

excited excited!!!

Unless your chicks are a sex link breed, they can't be accurately sexed until about 5 weeks minimum. What breed are they? I have no idea about the hatchery sending guaranteed eggs thing...I only hatch eggs from my chickens or a friend's chickens, never ordered any or heard about this. I can't wait to see what happens!

 

[Rod-T]

Unless your chicks are a sex link breed, they can't be accurately sexed until about 5 weeks minimum. What breed are they? I have no idea about the hatchery sending guaranteed eggs thing...I only hatch eggs from my chickens or a friend's chickens, never ordered any or heard about this. I can't wait to see what happens!

Ya hatcheries only guarantee sex on chicks not eggs..
This method has already been proven wrong

 

[bantamrooster]

Ya hatcheries only guarantee sex on chicks not eggs..
This method has already been proven wrong

Exactly.
If this or any method worked the hatcheries wouldnt be hatching out thousands of cockerels that no one wants.

 

[Rod-T]

http://m.thepoultrysite.com/news/34741

 

[Mschkweasnduck]

You dont need a chick whisperer.
Put your wedding band on a string and hold it steady above the chicks head.
If it spins in a circle its a pullet. If it swings back and forth its a cockerel.

 

[Rod-T]

http://m.thepoultrysite.com/news/34741

This link is a way to sex eggs

 

[Mschkweasnduck]

I know this ...however I did read something about temps while storing the eggs ...leave the eggs at lower than 60 degrees ,down to around 40 and they are mostly hens.however this is only determined by the male chicks dying off and the females hangin in there
I would try this one but I'd feel like a baby culler

 

[Mschkweasnduck]

Chick one is pipped popped and a barred rock , rir mix ....round egg#1
Cmon hatch day!
OHHH my ,I forgot. I checked my broody Maran yesterday and wouldn't you know it!!?
A duck egg in with the others...I don't think one of them is even her own egg sweet Marie the Maran