This is probably a stupid, stupid musing - but I was wondering if anyone has ever figured a way to improve chances of hatching a pullet instead of a roo? A friend of mine breeds horses. She always wanted fillies instead of colts because she could sell a filly for more $ than the colts, and the fillies, of course, could be used as broodmares down the line.
She used to add apple cider vinegar to her brood mares' water troughs religiously, because she had read somewhere that if you changed the PH of the mare's reproductive system, you would have more change of a filly hitting the ground. And for her, she did indeed get about 85% fillies on the ground vs the colts. After a life-changing event, she no longer hand the time and/or inclination I imagine to do the vinegar treatment to the troughs, and although they were still breeding, they began to have way fewer fillies than colts. If I didn't know this to be a fact myself, I probably wouldn't believe it. But they have way fewer girls born now than boys.
What my question is (and I'm so sorry to be long winded here), is ----- do you think there is a way to "persuade" an egg to be a pullet instead of a roo?
Very curious to know what anybody else thinks.
Darla
She used to add apple cider vinegar to her brood mares' water troughs religiously, because she had read somewhere that if you changed the PH of the mare's reproductive system, you would have more change of a filly hitting the ground. And for her, she did indeed get about 85% fillies on the ground vs the colts. After a life-changing event, she no longer hand the time and/or inclination I imagine to do the vinegar treatment to the troughs, and although they were still breeding, they began to have way fewer fillies than colts. If I didn't know this to be a fact myself, I probably wouldn't believe it. But they have way fewer girls born now than boys.
What my question is (and I'm so sorry to be long winded here), is ----- do you think there is a way to "persuade" an egg to be a pullet instead of a roo?
Very curious to know what anybody else thinks.
Darla
