Shape of egg help determine whether pullet or roo? WOW!

[texasbartrambaby]

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/1974-01-01/How-To-Sex-an-Egg.aspx

I wonder if this is really true? Has anyone seen anything about this before. That would be great!

 

[Emzyyy]

never heard of it

 

[paddock36]

That's interesting. Of all the eggs I have in my incubator I have one that is so pointy it's hard to tell which end is which. I hope it hatches so I can see if it's a roo.

 

[racuda]

Not true. I chose the roundest eggs, discarding the pointy ones and got 5 boys and 3 girls.

 

[silkieluver_07]

I did this for a science projext in seventh grade. It doesnt work.

 

[saddina]

Works with 50% accuracy.

 

[Marlinchaser]

Its an old wives tale(you know how those old wives can be)

(young wives can be that way too.)

Also dont believe the needle over the egg trick, though this one is usually right about 50% of the time.

 

[walkswithdog]

When you hear this silly stuff, think gee would there be millions of excess cockerals generated by the poultry hatcheries every year if there WERE a way to not PRODUCE them - they cost a ton of money and produce no profit.

 

[1acrefarm]

Mother Earth news just lost some credibility with me.

 

[saddina]

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The date of the article was 1974...