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This is interesting. Out of the 14 hatched from the MIL incubator, 1 (my chippy) is for certain a cockerel. These will be 4 weeks middle of this week. Now, it's still early on the negative ID (NOT a cockerel), but she hasn't noticed any wattles or pink combs on hers yet. We were battling temps cold enough to freeze eggs when collecting, so had eggs get cooled (but not cold) before getting them into the house. My place sits in lower 60s in those temps, and I collected for a week. In another month, we should know definitively what our ratios are this time.@RebeccaBoyd you might want to start cooling your eggs before letting them set them.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/can-chickens-really-change-gender/