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

[golden comets]

It does not work,I gave my grandaughters school 12 eggs to incubate,all rounded ends no points wanted to test this to see if it was true,out of the 12 5 hatched 4 roosters and one pullit.

 

[Mahonri]

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Agreed!!

 

[kassy68]

I hatche my first couple chicks.. My aracauna/EE lays pointy eggs.. and I do believe by its temperament and large cream spot its a roo

 

[chicks4kids]

Is that kinda like "carry high, it's a girl and carry low, it's a boy!?!"

 

[jvls1942]

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The date of the article was 1974...

1974 ?? ahhhh, that's it then.. it used to work but it doesn't anymore..

 

[OutdoorFun4]

I believe the only way to determine sex with the egg is:

If it lays one...It's a girl!

 

[Akane]

This comes up about every other month. It's pretty unanimous it's not true.

 

[roche477]

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Exactly!

 

[pamiejune]

Had me going there for a minute - thought my breeder in PA had that inside info and that's why I got 8 roos

and only 3 pullets out of the 11 that hatched! Heh...guess I won't be sending him a nasty-poo e-mail

after all...

 

[paddock36]

I looked at the eggs in my incubator and one of them was extremly pointy. I almost couldn't tell one end from the other. Here is a picture of the chick that just hatched today. I don't know what breed it is but I'm already thinking roo.