Is something wrong with my incubator

[Rajayfarm]

My last hatch was 20 out of 22 but all 20 or rooster my first hatch was 10 out of 12 four rooster six hens my 2nd hatch was 16 out of 22 four rooster twelve hens but my last batch I think something went wrong

 

[Brahmachicken240]

What went wrong ?
16 out of 22 is still a good hatch.

 

[Pyxis]

I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you're asking; are you saying that you're getting good hatch rates but you don't like how many roosters are hatching and you think it's something with the incubator that's causing that?

Incubating has nothing to do with the gender of the chicks. That is determined the very second the egg is created inside the hen. All the eggs a hen will ever have are already inside her ovary when she is born, and all of them already have a set gender. The incubator has nothing to do with it, nor does incubation temperature, or even the rooster.

Or did you mean you had another batch after all those ones you listed and that one didn't do so well and you had a bad hatch? 16 out of 22 isn't the best, but it's not really terrible either.

 

[R2elk]

What went wrong ?
16 out of 22 is still a good hatch.

The OP is trying to blame the incubator for hatching 20 cockerels from 22 eggs.

 

[Brahmachicken240]

Found this.
https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.ind...n-change-the-sex-of-chickens-1238516.html?amp

 

[Rajayfarm]

I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you're asking; are you saying that you're getting good hatch rates but you don't like how many roosters are hatching and you think it's something with the incubator that's causing that?

Incubating has nothing to do with the gender of the chicks. That is determined the very second the egg is created inside the hen. All the eggs a hen will ever have are already inside her ovary when she is born, and all of them already have a set gender. The incubator has nothing to do with it, nor does incubation temperature, or even the rooster.

Or did you mean you had another batch after all those ones you listed and that one didn't do so well and you had a bad hatch? 16 out of 22 isn't the best, but it's not really terrible either.

No I thought like high humidity can do something with sex but ok

 

[Rajayfarm]

I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you're asking; are you saying that you're getting good hatch rates but you don't like how many roosters are hatching and you think it's something with the incubator that's causing that?

Incubating has nothing to do with the gender of the chicks. That is determined the very second the egg is created inside the hen. All the eggs a hen will ever have are already inside her ovary when she is born, and all of them already have a set gender. The incubator has nothing to do with it, nor does incubation temperature, or even the rooster.

Or did you mean you had another batch after all those ones you listed and that one didn't do so well and you had a bad hatch? 16 out of 22 isn't the best, but it's not really terrible either.

Thought I read where humidity or temperature can change the sex of the chicken

 

[HuffleClaw]

Thought I read where humidity or temperature can change the sex of the chicken

It can’t.

 

[Pyxis]

Found this.
https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/a-drop-in-temperature-can-change-the-sex-of-chickens-1238516.html?amp

That would be cool (and useful!) if it were true, but I can't find any studies backing this up that say it's true. What I have read, and what there are studies to back up, is that if you refrigerate eggs prior to incubation, the female embryos are better able to withstand the cold, so you kill more male embryos than female embryos. And it's not even really that big a difference; it was found that when this technique was applies 54% of chicks hatched were female and 46% were male. And the gender wasn't changed, you just selectively killed off some male embryos.