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What determines a baby chicks gender?
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It's predetermined before the hen ever hatches out of an egg. Female chicks are born with all the eggs they will ever lay, just like in humans. The hen has no 'control' over which 'gender' eggs get released. Some hens do seem to produce more males, and some hens tend to produce more females.