Any other breeders who thread test sex of eggs using black thread on a needle?

[MommaHen1996]

This mean old lady my Grandma is friends with does needling to pregnant women. She swears by it. She did the needling to my pregnant belly when I was pregnant with my 2nd. My first was a boy. She said her method was guaranteed right, I was having a girl... It was boy. I had already had an ultrasound during which we found out his gender, but didn't tell her. Haha! It was very rewarding, since I can't openly disrespect anyone infront of my precious little Grandma.

I think it has something to do with magnetic field of blood circulation...and when doing it on a human...who has anoth human inside in it..I’m sure it wouldn’t work.

 

[InterestingChickens]

I never mentioned using this on humans. We are in no way related to chickens. It is the kind of thing that ruins real evidence. Frantic people get carried away with most things you tell them. Did any of you who posted need to? There was clearly a question asked. Who has also used this method with success. Had I violated your religion I would be expelled.

We are not arguing. I certainly and many other people just wanted a insight to your ways of doing things. Sorry if we have offended you in anyways.

 

[MommaHen1996]

U know I’ve found the string trick says when and eggs not fertile..it just sits still or goes all wonky...

 

[618025]

I think it has something to do with magnetic field of blood circulation...and when doing it on a human...who has anoth human inside in it..I’m sure it wouldn’t work.

When my husband was injured critically in the military we learned a few things from the C5 (this is the unit for severely injured wounded warriors, the best docs) doctors. They told us that humans do actually produce electricity and each human is different. There are scientific articles to back this up. Humans use electromagnetic wavelengths all the time, animals do too. All critters are made of cells, cells have atoms, atoms have electric fields and produce electricity. I don't think that needling eggs for gender works, otherwise hatcheries would never hatch males and save big bucks! But, I don't think the idea creatures have electricity and being sensitive to electromagnetic fields is crazy.

I did still have a great deal of satisfaction one upping that mean old lady, hehe.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Assuming for the sake of argument that this works, the offered "science" for why it works is implausible at best. Stick with "magic", at least it has some generally accepted rules.

A needle of unknown composition, hanging from a thread (type again unknown) which inexplicably must be black in color, at some distance from an egg can not be manipulated by naturally occurring atomic electromagnetic or other (weak, strong) forces at distances of scale of many orders of magnitude to swing either straight back and forth or in a circle (based on the sex of the embryo) in the presence of far stronger fields.

The chances of random guesses getting the answer correct 8 times in a row is 1 in 256. If every person in this nation attempted the experiment tonight, something like 1.3MILLION people would be successful. 329 Million would not.

I'm not denying atomic forces - we use them to take PET scans and CAT scans, for instance. Nor am I denying resonant harmonics, which are used for sonograms, among other useful medical diagnostic tools. I am saying its a leap of magic to take the existence of those extremely weak forces and posit some predictable, reproduceable effect with such crude instrumentation in the presence of fields of the same energies of FAR greater strength. Or to suggest that every male has a resonance similar enough to have some macro effect in spite of sharing almost everything of its genetic makeup, and all of its atomic makeup with females, posited to have some other resonance, though differences exist between chicken breeds of far larger genetic variance.

That's a lot of work to hang on the difference between a chicken embryo genetically ZZ and another, genetically ZW. Why not comb type? Skin color? Pattern genes? Feather Pigmentation?

Easier to hang pseudo science on the principles of symbolic and representative magic - the needle's movements, representative of a compass needle, is the indicator or guide, pointing the way. The thread is the symbol of the Moirai, oft called the Fates, in their image of the spinner, the measurer, and the cutter of the thread of life. That's Greek Myth, adopted by the Romans, and continuing to modern society in the imagery of western European heritage. Lachesis is the middle sister, and the needle may also serve as a stand in for her rod, by which she measured to the life of the thread her sister Clotho spun, before Atropos cut it off.

The assemblage moves in a straight line back and forth for the boys as an obvious phallic symbol, and in a circle for the girls for reasons you can hopefully figure out on your own. The direction of rotation, like the water in your toilet bowl, is determined by what side of the earth's equator you are on, no magic needed.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Here is a topic. I thread check all my fertile eggs now. And I am 100% accurate. Here is why I do that. I have an adorable very petite black bearded silkie hen. She has a problem developing her egg shapes. The other day for instance her egg had 2 points. It thread tested hen! Had it been a roo it would be a breakfast egg at the house (we have several silkie roos). But the needle spun out into a big circle. I stopped the needle and started again patiently. It did it twice. Into the incubator it went! I have a great time with all of this. Could we start a conversation with this info. I'd love to chat about it as a topic. Have a good day everyone.

How many chicks have you raised to adulthood using this method? I’m assuming you only hatch suspected female eggs?

I’ve never personally used this method or any similar ones because I’ve always had the option of a rooster-only flock.

 

[MommaHen1996]

But it works though...I hatched 8 chicks before this way, one rooster, and 7 hens....I will take pics of the quail eggs with their boy girl marks, and keep u guys updated. They are due to hatch...any day now.

 

[MommaHen1996]

Also...I don’t use a needle...U can use any form of small metal, in instance, I use a screw, test it on yourself then the opposite sex I’m telling u it picks up on our different magnetic fields....my kids love doing this part with me.

 

[Star silkies]

So the atomic activity of creating life in the egg causes a magnetic effect and the needle reacts to that?
So why does it either spin in circles or sway back and forth?
Males and females give off different atomic activity?
Do you have a mirror in your house?

 

[MommaHen1996]

A circle should be girl, and a line should be male.