Bullet or pullet

[FaithVondras987]

I saw a video on someone saying that u can tell if a chick will hatch a male or female by the shape of the egg. Is this true or false, jw because I have eggs in an incubator and they are different shapes.
I was wondering if I can tell gender before hatching day... end of this month

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

Just an old wifes tale.

 

[tacothechicken]

False. Egg shape depends on how they form in the hens tract. No way to tell, though I wish there was :"( eggs that a hen lays will change in size and shape depending on hormonal, nutritional and environmental factors, it has nothing to do whith any chick growing inside

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Common wives tale.....think about it this way, if it were really accurate commercial hatcheries would not be hatching so many excess cockerels. There is a thread, or two, here of members experimenting with it you could check out

 

[FaithVondras987]

Thank u, i was kinda hoping it was true Because I would have had a lot of hens.... lol, guess I will never know until they get older.

 

[tacothechicken]

Although I've heard that incubating on the lower spectrum of 98-99 hatches more hens than cockerals. Havent tested it yet but Imma do so one day my current batch has been 98.5 consistently so well see what I get out of my current 5 eggs

 

[FaithVondras987]

Iv got 11 eggs currently, only had to trash 3 due to oozing on the first day of incubation

 

[tacothechicken]

Oof that sucks! I had my first embryo death ever in the incubator on day 14 this hatch I've never had it happen before! They've been infertile or maybe born whith a issue but I've never had an egg give out midway in incubation. :,( it was disappointing.

 

[FaithVondras987]

My first batch none hatched, after opening them I found they died while I was moving them from my chicken to incubator at day 10. Eggs were shipped so that may have also been y most didn’t make it. Only 3 had developing chicks that died from day 7-14