sexing chicks using a magnet

[Slywoody]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!

 

[The Sheriff]

We bought our first four "pullets" from a lady who runs an animal sanctuary/disabled therapy program and she happens to be a veterinarian. She told us about the mystical pendulum method of sexing chicks and then ran inside to grab it and tried it on the 4 we picked out. One "seemed" to be a boy so we traded him for another. Ah Ha! Now we had all four pullets and drove away happy and mystified. A few months later we re-homed 2 roosters! If you're reading this Sue, we love ya' anyway and the hens.

 

[Ariel301]

This method has also been prescribed for telling the sex of unborn human babies and goat kids, or even to tell if a female human or animal is pregnant or not. I did a controlled test on both my goats and some people and it did not work.

The idea was that the chain/magnet/whatever variation you like would stay still when held over a non-pregnant subject, would swing one way for boy, another for girl, and another way for one of each. (What would it do for twins of opposite sex or triplets/quadruplets in goats? lol...). So, I tried it on a variety of goats. Here's what I got:
Known pregnant doe 1: pregnant, different results every time as to sex
Known pregnant doe 2: pregnant, different results every time as to sex
Bred doe, later confirmed not pregnant: Pregnant, different results every time as to sex
Doeling accidentally bred, unknown status, later confirmed pregnant: Pregnant, different results every time as to sex
Buck (intact male) 1: Pregnant with a boy
Buck 2: Pregnant with twins

It was correct in saying that I am not pregnant when I had it tried on me. But it also said that my husband is pregnant...hahaha now we know why he's put on some weight in the last few months! And I thought I was just feeding him too much good food.

Even if it did work, it would be very difficult for a human to hold it absolutely perfectly and not accidentally influence the direction of its swing with hand movements.

 

[MakNat]

I'm a year new to it and it has worked perfectly for me!!

 

[TenOC]

Years ago before ultrasound there was a doctor that use this method to tell the sex of a unborn child. If he was wrong you did not pay for this delivery charge, but he charged twice what most other doctors in the area charged to delivery a baby.

I am sure it works the same way.

 

[seramachick8]

This would be really interesting to try on an auto-sexing bird!!

 

[eggbeforchicken]

is it the person body electric that makes it work like finding water with a stick some people have it some have not
BUT who has it

 

[Blooie]

You will be right about half the time

It's a lot like a broken clock - it may not run but it's still right twice a day.

 

[eggbeforchicken]

lol lol very true

 

[blackgoat]

While poking around the internet, I found an experiment that was conducted to determine if using a pendulum can predict the sex of eggs and then hatched chicks. They concluded that it was around 77% accurate. Make of it what you will.

http://www.usab-tm.ro/fileadmin/fzb/volum 2007/volumul 1/biotehnologii/Bencsik_1.pdf