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Also, are you going to kill two birds with one stone and have someone who doesn't know that they're autosexing try to sex them using the fear thing?
I suppose that 'kill two birds with one stone' might not be the best expression to use on a chicken forum, but you know what I mean lol
 
Also, are you going to kill two birds with one stone and have someone who doesn't know that they're autosexing try to sex them using the fear thing?

This time they aren't autosexing, they're Polkies (Silkie/Polish crosses). I can still do the autosexing experiment later as a follow-up to this experiment but this fridge experiment took precedence over the other because a friend of mine lost a hen and she wanted to make sure to hatch some of her babies. So we set all of the fridge eggs we could find from her Silkie hens and added some "properly" stored and unwashed eggs to make sure that we still had some chicks in case only one fridge egg developed or something. Some of the fridge eggs were a month old so imagine our surprise when ALL of the eggs started to develop! Lol
 
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Also, are you going to kill two birds with one stone and have someone who doesn't know that they're autosexing try to sex them using the fear thing?

The reason I feel like this still clears the refrigerator myth as a wives tale is because I believe the sex is determined at the point of fertilization so the only way it would have made sense is if I had a higher number of quitters, assuming that there would have been a higher mortality rate of rooster embryos in lower temps.
 
The reason I feel like this still clears the refrigerator myth as a wives tale is because I believe the sex is determined at the point of fertilization so the only way it would have made sense is if I had a higher number of quitters, assuming that there would have been a higher mortality rate of rooster embryos in lower temps.
I don't know anything about hatching so I'll take your word for it
 

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