Can Pointy vs Round eggs tell the sex?

[Chubbicthe2nd]

Someone told me that cockrells are more likely to hatch from pointy eggs, and pullets I'm more likely to hatch from round eggs. Is this true?

 

[Squawkers]

I have heard this too, and it's false. But if someone else has a differing opinion I would be very curious to hear it. I wish it were true. It would make hatching eggs so much easier

 

[Sparrows]

I've heard that it is false

 

[nuthatched]

It's an old wives tale. The egg is the yolk, the shell is based in the hens anatomy.

 

[Chubbicthe2nd]

Bummer. It did seem too good to be true.

 

[Susan Skylark]

You get a coin, close your eyes, turn around until you are dizzy then toss the coin. Do this 100 times per egg. If heads out number tails there is a 51.3 percent chance it is male. Double check with one of those magnet things. If the results are inconsistent repeat it 1000 times (for statistical significance) and by now your eggs should be hatched and old enough to sex but you can’t remember which chicken came from which egg and just throw up your hands in dismay and enjoy your chickens (joke!).

Seriously though (not really!) whatever you want to hatch, you’ll select eggs of 84 percent of the other sex. This is a verifiable scientific fact discovered and named after Dr. Murphy.

I’ll finally be serious, like guaranteed homeopathic cures for cancer, if someone had a halfway decent way to sex eggs, big chicken (or big pharma) would be all over it. To hobbyists it is annoying, to big chicken it would be worth millions!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Other posters are correct. Anything that sounds like an old wives' tale is usually false.
If it or any of the myriads of other tales were true, the commercial egg industry wouldn't have to kill hundreds of millions of day-old cockerels.