First to hatch are the boys?

[NickyPick]

A friend sent me a link to a Smithsonian article - Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2011/08/14-fun-facts-about-chickens/#ixzz2OH3tD5Ae and I got this quote down in the comments:



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Anyone ever heard of this before? Any truth to it? I'm setting some eggs today and I think I my mark the first couple to hatch and then see if they turn out to be cockerels or pullets.

 

[DraigAthar]

It's a myth. I band all of my chicks and keep track of what sex they wind up being, there's never been a correlation between early hatching and sex.