hatching test, anyone want to try the round egg vs pointy egg????

[zatsdeb]

I am going to do the test, the old timers that say round eggs are hens, and pointy eggs are roosters, I did it with some guinea eggs I was hatching I put chicken eggs in with them, I thought I had all round brown, and had 10, and 8 hatched.. they all seem to look like hens to me but they are all hatched on the 4th of august. I am going to set some more today, I have a bunch of round eggs and I am going to do the test!!!!!!
Just thought it would be fun, my DH is relaxing on letting me hatch, since we have hatched 3 rounds of guineas!!! Gee...I have about 50 now!!!! 3 different stages!
so.....
I am putting everything in, including the black polish and the white sultan!!

these are my latest chicks, and guinea keets....the only one I hope is a rooster is the polish! My polish rooster is mean and old....!!!! and this is my big birdcage we got at a sale for $15.00!!! DH doesn't mind it in the house!!!!

 

[Cherlyn]

Only $15?!?! What a deal!

~Cherlyn

 

[19hhbelgian]

so, how do you know how to set a round egg?

 

[zatsdeb]

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I was just trying to put them in the turner and after 3 bad hatches I realized the turner was not working right!!! So... Now I have the incubator in my master bathroom, I just layed them in there without a turner and turn them when I go to bed, and turn them when I get up in the morning, I had an almost perfect hatch!! the ones that didn't hatch I candled and were not fertile!

 

[Tonopah Pati]

I won some eggs in a farm name contest.I have never hatched eggs! Now I am trying to decide if I will take them. Does anyone have some ideas? I am not ready to hatch eggs yet. I would like to try it, I think it would be fun. It is a trip just raising babies, so I am sure it must be really special to hatch them. OMG! What to do???
How hard is it? I know Humidity is really important, and I live in the Desert.

 

[Katy]

99.9% of my Marans eggs are equally rounded on both ends so that means that I should pretty much only hatch hens.....that hasn't happened yet. I generally hatch more roos than pullets.

 

[zatsdeb]

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I know most of my barred rock eggs are round too, I am looking at them close and trying to find the roundest ones. some look completely round but next to another egg sometimes it looks like a pointy.. but then again could be my imagination!! I am going to try anyways! I always hatched and didn't check the eggs, its something an old timer told my DH at a sale, he was looking for a rooster cause he does that round egg hatch and always gets hens.
thought it would be fun to try at least!

 

[Katy]

Post your results...I've seen quite a few people who've been going to do the same thing, but then I've never seen any results posted.

 

[bigdawg]

i saved a weeks worth of eggs, 54 i set 42 that i thought were the roundest. 36 hatched 35 lived and so far i think there is only one rooster. time well tell when they get older. i also was told buy a old timer that pointed eggs were roosters and the round ones were hens.

 

[marytoast]

I picked my hen's roundest 7 eggs. I ended up with 6 hatching 4 boys and 2 girls.