Is there a way that you can incubate eggs with out getting roosters

[Chick Isa]

Original Poster

Oh ok

 

[Chick Isa]

Y

i get not wanting to cull chicks, its tough. have you considered finding homes for extra roos? some people are always looking for breeding stock or even just pet chickens.

Yes I actually managed to re home my roosters but it was hard and took a long time and I don’t think I would find homes if I did it again.

 

[tlcmurphy]

Y

Yes I actually managed to re home my roosters but it was hard and took a long time and I don’t think I would find homes if I did it again.

I joined BYC because I needed to rehome a cockerel as well. I loved that boy but can’t have roosters in metro Atlanta.

I suggest purchasing sexed chicks, or better yet pullets since there can still be errors with sexed chicks.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I joined BYC because I needed to rehome a cockerel as well. I loved that boy but can’t have roosters in metro Atlanta.

I suggest purchasing sexed chicks, or better yet pullets since there can still be errors with sexed chicks.

A couple of times in the past we ordered a certain number of males and a certain number of females of the same breed (dual purpose) to be sure we got cockerels for the freezer, rather than straight run. Amazingly we got EXACTLY what we ordered! This was before we went to CornishX for the freezer. There's a lot to be said for the DP breeds, but I don't want to hijack this thread.

 

[Draya]

I read about an old wives tale that rounder eggs produce females and pointy ones males but I’ve never experimented

 

[NatJ]

I read about an old wives tale that rounder eggs produce females and pointy ones males but I’ve never experimented

And there's an older-yet tale saying exactly the opposite (pointy eggs female/round eggs male).

That one can be found in the work of Pliny the Elder, who wrote about two thousand years ago.
The work is Natural History, Volume 2, Book 10, Chapter 74 "The various kinds of eggs, and their nature." You can find an English translation here on Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60230

Obviously they cannot both be true, and I'm pretty sure that neither one is.

 

[heatherbell2]

Chicken sex is not determined by temperature or conditions of their incubation/hatch environment like sea turtles or alligators.

 

[jlwquilter]

Where does the ‘chicken’ in dog and cat food come from? Male chicks from the hatchery as well as slaughter houses /poultry processing plants. It’s a fact.

I’ve done both - culled day old cockerels (definitely not fun) and given them away to any taker. I much prefer the giving them away route. I do not ask what the new owners intentions are and frankly it doesn’t matter as I would have no control over it anyway.
Dealing with unwanted males one way or another is part of deciding to hatch chicks. Buying sexed chicks, either sexlinked or from a reputable hatchery, is the way to go if dealing with unwanted males is not for you. It’s really comes down to that.
Once the hubby retires and there’s more time to deal with farm chores we will move to raising the roos for our own meat uses.

 

[Nanci McFarland]

What’s Op ?

Original poster.

 

[Scooter1A]

put 'em in the pot