egg sexing

[ijon1]

Has anyone heard of egg sexing. Looking at a egg shape to see if it is a hen or rooster

 

[ClairedeLune]

I haven't, not sure if it is possible. It is pretty hard to tell the sex of a chicken (except for sex-links) b/fore a certain age when they have hatched, I think egg shapes differ for breeds, not sexes.
Hope it helps.
--ClairedeLune

 

[feather leg farms]

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cool

 

[1lpoock]

Patent to egg sexing machine
Here is the patent to it...

 

[catwalk]

So if the egg has never been fertilized, can you tell what sex it WOULD have been?

 

[saddina]

You can, with about 50% accuracy.

 

[ijon1]

The pointy ones are suppose to be rooster and the oval ones are hens.

 

[catwalk]

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Those are my kinda stats! Yeah!

 

[speckledhen]

No, you absolutely cannot sex by egg shape, no way, no how. Nope, nada. If that was true, no hatchery would ever hatch more roosters than it needed and my Lexie, who lays a perfectly oval egg, would not throw 75% cockerels. Cannot be done. Now, I do know a sexing method that's just as accurate....flip a coin.

 

[sonew123]

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Im going to try the coin toss one-because the other method jinxed me bad!!!! out of 12 chicks 9 were roos! darn pointy eggs!!