Old wive's tale or true?

It's not true. I've hatched both males and females from these eggs. The shape just has to do with the was they shell was formed, not the gender of the embryo.

 

I wish it were true!
But, it is only an Old Wive's Tale.
If it were true, then we would be able to buy pullets from the hatcheries much cheaper. They wouldn't have to incubate so many eggs and dispose of unwanted cockeral chicks.
We would also be able to order Bantams as pullets only also.

I have a few hens that only lay very pointed eggs, and their offspring is about 50/50.

Edited to add: I ran across a site yesterday that stated the opposite for sexing eggs...LOL They said the pointed ones were pullets!

Jean

 

I've heard it too, why don't you try and see?

I want to when my girls start laying.

 

I think we definately need to start working on a self-sexing before hatch breed. Perhaps like those pregnancy tests, one line for boy, two lines for if its a girl, no lines if its unfertilized. Well that's the dream anyway.

 

Please take pictures of you running after the hens with a stick for them to **** on, before they lay the next egg, so you will know what sex it will be!!!!


I couldn't help myself... LOL

Jean

 

I can't rtemember which breeding site I had read it on but supposedly it does change your chances to 70% female. I tried with my girl but they were all the same. Just recently she laid her first pointier egg....and her babes now count four pullets and four roos...all from almost the exact same shape

 

Well, I wonder if this does not apply to ALL eggs, but to some hens. Maybe on a hen to hen basis you can differenciate between male and female eggs. I dunno. Some old wives tales are a bunch of bologna but some have validity to them, even if we do not yet understand the science behind them.

 

LOL. I think it is just an old wives tale. Either that or I'm a very very lucky owner. Two out of three of my Dorking hens lay only rounded, golfball like eggs. I must admit that many of the Dorkings that have hatched so far are female, but I know I have had a few male as well.

-Kim