Mystery Gene?

[MasterOfAllChickens111]

So, I have a very special chicken named Alice. Alice is a very important bird in our family. So, we have a monarchy in our flock and she is the queen. Well, when she started to lay eggs we started incubated them so she has a “heir”. So, her legacy will live on. She has her first baby and it was a boy. She has a second baby from the same rooster and has a son again. I really want a girl from her! I just want to know if I can “change” the gender some way. So, I can have a girl.

 

[sourland]

Hatch more eggs. The odds will even out, and you will get your pullets.

 

[MasterOfAllChickens111]

She has stopped laying eggs for awhile now. She is a old English game bird bantam and she is a spoiled hen.When ever other chickens get on HER roost. She will peck their feet and legs until they get off and go to another one.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Of course you can't change a gender.

 

[MasterOfAllChickens111]

. Well, I heard that if you change the temperature on the incubator a little bit. It can change the gender of the chick in the egg.

 

[The Moonshiner]

That's not correct.
What is actually the truth is for some reason male embryos are more sensitive to lower temperatures then female embryos so when incubated or even stored before incubation if you can find that sweet spot temp it will kill some of the male embryos but not the female ones so you will end up hatching less eggs but what do hatch will be a higher percentage of females.

 

[Fishkeeper]

Chicken sex is determined by chromosomes. In some reptiles, the sex is determined by temperature, and can be influenced, but you can't do that with chickens.

 

[nicalandia]

Of course you can't change a gender.

Not technically, but..

Males are ZZ, Females are ZW, some hens due to illness or environment may get their W allele damaged or ineffective, so they start transitioning to roosters, they act like one, but of course, they can't produce progeny.. But roosters will never become pseudo hens like some hens do.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I understand that but it really isn't relavent.
OP what's to actually change an embryos gender. That's not happening. Nor is what you're talking about actually changing a gender.
OP is also only interested in making sure she gets a female to carry on her hens genes.
That's not even coming close to happening with an embryo or the situation you're talking about.
Posts like yours confuse some people into thinking chickens can change sex. I'd rather not do that myself.

 

[nicalandia]

Posts like yours confuse some people into thinking chickens can change sex. I'd rather not do that myself.

From a purely scientific point of view, chicken(aves in general) embryology is a fascinating subject indeed.

Parthenogenesis has been documented in chickens and full males have been obtained in Beltsville white turkey lines, I was trying to find a way to sex day old embryos using Fibromelanosis F1s..

Sorry for going off topic.