Any truth to pointy eggs being cockerels?

[Juju2773]

I was wondering if there is any truth to the old wives tale about a pointy egg will be a cockerel and a more rounded egg will be a pullet?? Any experiences with this? I did have a hatch with one very pointy egg and it did turn out to be a cockerel.

 

[Wolfefarmyard]

Nope, not true at all. Probably just another old wives tale.

 

[Doc7]

It’s not true.

but hey, one of the most popular threads right now on this website is someone hanging nails and washers on a string above their chicks and their incubating eggs to see if the string swings in a circle or a straight line because the “cockerel’s magnetism is different than the pullet’s”. So go ahead and believe what you like, in the end you gonna have to cull 50% of your hatches no matter what.

 

[The Moonshiner]

So the one on the bottom will not be a guaranteed cockerel?

 

[Tonyroo]

Not true.