Sexing eggs!

[Lozuufy]

5 are out so far, ALL BOYS!!

2 were not guessed as boys by shape.

3 more pips, 4 more to go!

Please let them be girls!! I measured each egg with calipers, so I will leave all the results and measurements when all are out! Wish me luck!!:

Oh no!

Hope the rest are girls!

 

[melnjerm]

Oh no! Hope the rest are girls!

Nope. Doesn't look like any girls
10 out of 12 hatched.

 

[junebuggena]

Nope. Doesn't look like any girls

10 out of 12 hatched.

Keep in mind that the auto-sexing traits don't really work unless the breeder is very careful to maintain those traits. Just because the chicks are Legbars, does not mean that they are auto-sexing. It's entirely possible to have pullets with very clear head spots.

 

[melnjerm]

Keep in mind that the auto-sexing traits don't really work unless the breeder is very careful to maintain those traits. Just because the chicks are Legbars, does not mean that they are auto-sexing. It's entirely possible to have pullets with very clear head spots.

I was hoping someone on here would give me some hope!! I thought some were suspicious and was going to give them time 2 develop before I made any decisions. Thanks for your input!! I appreciate it!

 

[CherriesBrood]

Were all your eggs pointy or round? Or what was their shapes?

 

[melnjerm]

Actually, there was pretty much an equal amount of both. I measured each with calipers and everything. However, my information might not be useful at all because its still a possibility that I have girls, but that they were bred incorrectly. I couldn't keep a track of which chick came from which egg after they hatched and walked away, so if I do have girls, my info is useless. I should know in 2-4 weeks if I have any girls and if I do, I'll let you all know the info I gathered. It was fun while it lasted!

 

[kuchchicks]

Keep in mind that the auto-sexing traits don't really work unless the breeder is very careful to maintain those traits. Just because the chicks are Legbars, does not mean that they are auto-sexing. It's entirely possible to have pullets with very clear head spots.

Actually, there was pretty much an equal amount of both. I measured each with calipers and everything. However, my information might not be useful at all because its still a possibility that I have girls, but that they were bred incorrectly. I couldn't keep a track of which chick came from which egg after they hatched and walked away, so if I do have girls, my info is useless. I should know in 2-4 weeks if I have any girls and if I do, I'll let you all know the info I gathered. It was fun while it lasted!

Actually if you had an equal amount of both round and pointy eggs and you are able to keep track of which chick came from which egg your information WILL be helpful. Right now because of the type of chicks you have you are guessing that they are all males. But if they were not bred the way they were supposed to for auto sexing then your egg info could be correct. If you end up with equal amount so females and males, and your eggs were equally female and male, and you can identify which egg each of those chicks came from then you will be able to determine if your measurements worked. Now if they do all turn out to be males, or they turn out to all be females (either way that in itself would be statistically significant as that almost never happens), then that too is important to the study. Just because we do not get the results that we are hoping for or that we want does not mean that the information is useful. By the end of this study we may find that we disprove the theory. The experiment and the information that you provide would still be scientifically valid.

I just loaded my bator with 3 dozen Maran eggs. I loaded 2/3 with what should hopefully be female eggs, and the other 1/3 with what should be male eggs (only because I did not have any more female eggs... had I had enough to only do female eggs then I would have! LOL!). I am only 4 days in. It will be quite a while before I know the results because I cannot sex the chicks. But I will post. Hopefully I will have more females than I know what to do with. (Sadly on a side note I never had good luck hatching Marans. Last summer I only got 2 out of 12 to hatch and of course they both turned out to be males. I did not keep track of which kind of eggs they came out of back then though.)

 

[melnjerm]

Actually if you had an equal amount of both round and pointy eggs and you are able to keep track of which chick came from which egg your information WILL be helpful.  Right now because of the type of chicks you have you are guessing that they are all males.  But if they were not bred the way they were supposed to for auto sexing then your egg info could be correct.  If you end up with equal amount so females and males, and your eggs were equally female and male, and you can identify which egg each of those chicks came from then you will be able to determine if your measurements worked.  Now if they do all turn out to be males, or they turn out to all be females (either way that in itself would be statistically significant as that almost never happens), then that too is important to the study.  Just because we do not get the results that we are hoping for or that we want does not mean that the information is useful.  By the end of this study we may find that we disprove the theory.  The experiment and the information that you provide would still be scientifically valid. 

I just loaded my bator with 3 dozen Maran eggs.  I loaded 2/3 with what should hopefully be female eggs, and the other 1/3 with what should be male eggs (only because I did not have any more female eggs... had I had enough to only do female eggs then I would have!  LOL!).  I am only 4 days in.  It will be quite a while before I know the results because I cannot sex the chicks.  But I will post.  Hopefully I will have more females than I know what to do with.  (Sadly on a side note I never had good luck hatching Marans.  Last summer I only got 2 out of 12 to hatch and of course they both turned out to be males.  I did not keep track of which kind of eggs they came out of back then though.)

Fair enough! I will keep you posted!

 

[lazy gardener]

Actually if you had an equal amount of both round and pointy eggs and you are able to keep track of which chick came from which egg your information WILL be helpful. Right now because of the type of chicks you have you are guessing that they are all males. But if they were not bred the way they were supposed to for auto sexing then your egg info could be correct. If you end up with equal amount so females and males, and your eggs were equally female and male, and you can identify which egg each of those chicks came from then you will be able to determine if your measurements worked. Now if they do all turn out to be males, or they turn out to all be females (either way that in itself would be statistically significant as that almost never happens), then that too is important to the study. Just because we do not get the results that we are hoping for or that we want does not mean that the information is useful. By the end of this study we may find that we disprove the theory. The experiment and the information that you provide would still be scientifically valid.

I just loaded my bator with 3 dozen Maran eggs. I loaded 2/3 with what should hopefully be female eggs, and the other 1/3 with what should be male eggs (only because I did not have any more female eggs... had I had enough to only do female eggs then I would have! LOL!). I am only 4 days in. It will be quite a while before I know the results because I cannot sex the chicks. But I will post. Hopefully I will have more females than I know what to do with. (Sadly on a side note I never had good luck hatching Marans. Last summer I only got 2 out of 12 to hatch and of course they both turned out to be males. I did not keep track of which kind of eggs they came out of back then though.)

Is there any way that you can put a divider in the bator, to separate the shapes, and then band the chicks after hatch? IMO, that would be the only way to provide any useful stats in a mixed shape hatch. You must realize that this is coming from someone who was too excited to do the same with her last hatch!

 

[chickengr]

This is just for fun.

I am on my third incubation this spring. I have had a time of it as this is the first year that I am hatching with an incubator. My first hatch gave me only 1 out of 17 eggs. That was a tough pill to swallow as it hit my arrogance hard; I believed that if a chicken could do it then it must be easy. Now I have had to face the sobering thought that a chicken is better at something than I am!

But, the last hatch was 3 out of four ducklings, 3 out of four bantams and 1 out of 1 buff sussex! Yippeee

They are now two weeks old and, this is the important bit, I set all non-pointy eggs. They should be, according to science, pullets.

I have no idea what they are yet gender-wise but I will announce it on here. If anyone else also wants to set non-pointy eggs and tell me what they got, I would love to hear about it.

The key is not the roundness or length of the egg but the least difference in the circumference at each end of the egg. see photo diagram.


Sorry its sideways but basically, in the picture egg A would be a roo and the others pullets.


Who is with me in this egg-speriment?

2 of my NN girls lay A shape eggs. I got 1 boy and 1 girl.