How to tell Male or Female Egg?? 92% accurate!

[lightchick]

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You just made my day, I'm still laughing. Great thread by the way, very interesting.

x2! So funny!

 

[gimmie birdies]

These last 3 were fridge eggs.

 

[lightchick]

These last 3 were fridge eggs.

Awwwww They are so cute! Looks like 1 or 2 of them has Ameraucana in them....?

 

[gimmie birdies]

I think little brown one on the bottom is baby Welsummer they look like an EE.

 

[HappyBeaks]

You just made my day, I'm still laughing. Great thread by the way, very interesting.

Well it is funny looking back now but at the time she was proper raging and you have never heard so many swear curse words said in one sentence in all your life. She did forgive me though when she seen all the fluffy chicks when they hatched haha

 

[HappyBeaks]

Awww thats so cool, I thought I was the only one that ever tried hatching fridge eggs hahaha well done!!!

 

[HugHess]

On the verge of setting my first batch...

and saw your thread. I am almost as afraid of hatching 'all' Roos as I am hatching nothing at all! Hope your thesis is as meritorious as many of us would like it to be, kudos to you!
If I can easily distinguish pointy v. round I will mark them accordingly and, God willing, if they hatch with like percentages then I will definitely post it here.
That would be a well kept secret...hope you blow the lid off it.

 

[lightchick]

Isn't there a way to get more pullets with higher incubation temps?

 

[gimmie birdies]

Higher temps trend more toward males. I have had success lately with fridge eggs. my very last dozen eggs hatched I only got 2 males. You do fridge eggs you will have less eggs that hatch, but I am assuming they are males that don't hatch since the females hatch, for me anyway. I take both anyway because I eat roos.

If you have eggs to experiment with (using non-fridge eggs) try normal temps from day 0-2 and a half. from days 2and 1/2 to day 5 lower temps to 90. after day 5 normal temps rest of hatch.( Eggs still develop at 68 or above, 90 will only slow the hatch so in the end it will take longer.) Good luck
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[pjquail]

I had the most beautiful round egg I incubated once. it was a roo.

Same here. I had some georgia giant babies hatch in early September (via incubator) and there was one egg I received that was almost a perfect circle, but it was very small! I had to help the chick out of the shell because he had been fighting for 2 1/2 days trying to push out with only 1/2 a zipped shell. In the end he came out with a kinked neck, deformed feet, could not walk, he would roll on his face, and was the size of a nickel! The other chicks bullied him, so I divided the brooding container into a 2/3 & 1/3 section and put him and my sweetest baby quail PJ in with him (yes PJ as in my username) and they got along perfectly! He was like a mother to him, he taught him how to eat, drink, walk properly, and to not be so clingy to every chick he sees. When he turned 3 days old (PJ would be 5-6 days old), he was so determined to get to the other chicks, he dug a hole under the hardware-cloth barrier that was 1.5 ft tall and slipped under to the other chicks with PJ..... I almost had a heart attack, but soon realized that HE was the boss around there. If HE wanted to rest on top of you, he would do just that. And soon enough (thanks to PJ's hard work) he could walk, drink, eat, and socialize normally! His neck straightened out too with time.
Anyway, sorry to bore you with that story

But now they are exactly 1 month old today, and i'll try to keep an eye on him and see if he comes out a hen or a roo.

And can anybody answer some questions I have here?
- I have 1 chick (1 mnth old) with a very bright white strip of feathers under & on his wings. Is this an indication of being a roo or hen? Or is it just random coloring of his wings? He's the chick with the white on him.

- I have another chick, the one directly above this sentence who takes a liking/interest to my hand & face. As you can see in the picture, he is cocking his head at me. When I reach my hand inside the brooder, he's the only chick to not run away and he studies my hand and moves toward it slowly. And when my hands not inside and he sees my face looking in, he walks towards my direction and stares up at me. I've heard that males are very friendly & docile, so I was just wondering again, if this is any indication of his gender?

-And last but not least: This might just be silly & in my head, but what if almost all of my chicks are roos but maybe 1-2 hens (I have 6) What should I do? Is that even probable? I don't want to put 1 roo with 2 hens and leave all the other roos fighting and screeching. But I also don't want to put them all together, because I don't want 50-100 baby quail running around my house, coop, and yard. If I end up with a ratio (male:female) of 5:1, 4:2, or 3:3, should I consider letting some eggs hatch from the hen(s) and see how many hens I get (I might try to take out the pointed ones, based on your predictions, to reduce the chances of roos).

Anyway, sorry for rambling on again, but if anyone could help answer these few questions I would really appreciate it.