Determining Sex By Shape of Egg

Superior Chicks

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Nov 3, 2008
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I just read, somewhere in cyberspace, that round eggs=hens and oval shaped eggs =roosters.

I've been around a loooooong time and I've never heard this one.
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Anyone else ever heard of this?

Just curious.

Ma
 
Ive heard of it !! People have tryed it many times.... Didnt work !!

Just think if it did we all wouldnt have to many roosters !!
 
Well, its completely stupid, really. If that was true, why wouldn't hatcheries just toss the eggs with the cockerels instead of disposing of them in horrible ways? And if it was true, then my Lexie would produce many more girls than she does.
 
Nope...never heard that one. I guess it would work if you had one of those big, red, "easy" buttons from staples. Ha!!

I love hearing "old wives tales". Some of them are just hillarious!!
 
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It doesn't work, so 50 percent of the eggs you are culling could be hens.

As Speckledhen already pointed out if this did work the hatcheries wouldn't have to cull cockerels.

It would be great if it worked, but it is a myth.
 

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