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peepblessed said:
One of these days someone will find a way to sex early. Maybe you! I tried mapping newly hatched comb shapes to see if there was a correlation. Didn't help....
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You know what's weird? I find my boys have different eyes than the girls. The shape is larger and more round. Maybe I am crazy.. Maybe not.. Who knows lol. I can see resemblances between mothers and chicks right away. I have too much chicken in my brain I think :gig Also the beak thing.. Probably doesn't help that dad has a girly beak.
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chickchickchiky said:
Yes it does! i did learn that humidity varies from state to state for sure! I talked to a breeder here and was told that 45% from day one to lock down is ideal and 50 to 65% in lock down and so far a did have my best hatch that said though i lost most of them because i had to do the OMG do not open the bater thing LOL. I had a chick that pipped and zipped in 20 min and had not absorbed the yolk sac so i waited and waited then it popped it and well i panicked and took him out. Well when i did that i compromised the rest of them and the chick ended up dying anyway so my dumb luck. That said DO NOT OPEN no matter what! If the chick dies it dies. If i had left that one i would have had a better hatch rate and would have not had to assist the others out of the egg. I learned a lot on this hatch trail and error. Is was my urge to help the poor wounded chick that killed the one's that had not hatched so i ended up with six. I eggtopsied that ones that did not hatch and found them to be ready but a bit shrink wrapped and that was due to me opening the incubator they would have probably hatched on day 22. Live and learn sigh...
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Oh WOW! I just hope we have at least a pair to make it that far!! or any for that matter : (
 
I am hoping I have some girls in that mix! They're super sweet. I got them from a local breeder for my sons birthday <3 he loves them. They come from good lines, I can't wait to see how they turn out!
 
Brethren49619 said:
I've heard something similar about wing shape, but was unable to find anything online to further investigate this.  I was told the males wing was more curved at the end, and the females straight when you pulled the wing out and looked at the profile of the wing feathers.
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. We are not close to the time of knowing..
Not a pro by ant means.... It takes longer..
... However
I do think we have one roo.. So we will look
into doing that.. If we can catch them... Fast
but, we might have our boys get a:lol: work out..
 
aoxa said:
You know what's weird? I find my boys have different eyes than the girls. The shape is larger and more round. Maybe I am crazy.. Maybe not.. Who knows lol. I can see resemblances between mothers and chicks right away. I have too much chicken in my brain I think :gig Also the beak thing.. Probably doesn't help that dad has a girly beak.
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what a good close up.. We have one that color... Red right ?:rolleyes:
 
Would you guys care to see if you can tell their gender by their combs? I could post some pictures. I know nothing is 100%, but opinions would still be fun! or is it better to put it in the 'guess the gender' section?
 

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