Sexing eggs!

In two years hopefully I'll be able to set some sex-linked turkey eggs (auburn tom and bronze hen), and maybe sex linked chicken eggs.

Next year I will probably have some sex-linked pigeons and maybe quail.
 
I tried this with seven eggs a few weeks ago. Could be a coincidence but all seven turned out to be pullets. Will be following this method from now on.
 
The hardest part of this experiment is waiting for the outcome.. My chicks are almost two weeks old now... I tried the wing analysis and they all looked the same with long and short... I tried the tail... Well at one week they all had tails... So just got to wait and see.
 
I am a total techno idiot.  So... don't look to me to try to figure that one out.  I tried to set up a survey once, but failed miserably at it.  I think i'd like to be involved in the set up, though, and perhaps several others (no nay sayers please) can join on a collaborative effort to come up with the survey ?'s and format.  This is NOT a debate about whether it works or not.  What it is is a collaborative setting of eggs by many people, and collection and analysis of data, whether it be + or - in terms of supporting the egg shape theory.  Pics would be helpful, as well as method of incubation, temp of incubation, total # of eggs set vs. eggs hatched, were they all rounded, any discernment re:  choosing specific eggs from a specific hen.  Especially helpful:  folks who have a sex linked pairing to provide immediate gender data at hatch.  Look for a new thread in the early spring announcing the initial set up of survey, looking for ?'s to include on survey.  We'll progress from there.
cool, I would be interested in doing that, please post here when you start the thread in case I miss it. I would be using crested cream legbarsc if they are still laying so I would be able to tell at day old.
 
CC, in my limited experience, I did not find that to be true.
I haven't found it to be true either but in breakout analysis at universities and incubator companies roundish and large eggs are deemed to be 2 of the causes of malpositions.
Item #21 f. in the following link.
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00008570/00001/5j

I am starting to regret posting this now. People seem very adamant that its not true but all i'm asking is to see, if a lot of people try, what kind of percentages we get. If you dont want to do it then thats fine, no one is forcing you too.
Don't regret anything. I'm a skeptic too but I won't say definitively it isn't true unless I check it out over the course of an entire year with hundreds of eggs hatched all from the same breed and birds.
Or if some university does a definitive study.
One has to assume Egg hybrid companies like hy-line have conducted similar experiments before.
 
I tried this with seven eggs a few weeks ago. Could be a coincidence but all seven turned out to be pullets. Will be following this method from now on.
Keep those stats for the survey coming in the spring.

I plan on continuing with this experiment every time I set eggs this year.
If you're using your own eggs, you've got nothing to loose. Pointed eggs taste just as good as round ones.

CC, I've found that I have less luck hatching big eggs.
 

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