Rooster/Hen ratio in hatch HELP!

[peachychick]

ericspells, you may be on to something.
Time will tell. We're going to do the pink and blue banding and keep up with them for a few weeks to see how it comes out.

 

[dkluzier]

Wanted to join in thes conversation since I had a rooster/hen ratio problem myself this year. I was wondering if incubation temperature had anything to do with hatching more roosters. It does with reptiles such as lizards and alligators... the higher temps hatch more males and we had a temperature spike while incubating. My other theory was that my new rooster is responsible for shooting out too many male sperm or something. What if I tried a different rooster for fertilization?

By the way, out of 23 eggs, we got 13 roosters. That's only 65% roos, which I thought was horrible - I see others have done worse. Last year we hatched 10% rooster to 90%hens but it was not the same rooster doing the fertilization and we didn't have the temperature spike.

 

[peachychick]

We moved the marked eggs to the hatcher, but were in such a tizzy with baby chicks falling out the door as it opened, didn't think to separate the "H" and "R" marked eggs. I am such a dork sometimes! We had about 6 trays of eggs out of the incubator and were trying to work quickly candeling and reorganizing the trays to make room for new eggs in the bator.
I'm afraid to go poking back around in there after 24 hours in lockdown, which is never really lockdown for us b/c we always have to add more water to the tray everyday.
Anyway, sorry to get your hopes up. We are planning to breed for some olive eggers later this spring. I will definitely use more controlled methods as those eggs are set and see if there is anything to the string/ring method.