The Great SI (Shape index) experiment

[Nksg75]

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Got it, thanks

 

[Nksg75]

@lazy gardener
Ok, so after the email, I am just going to throw the half formed chick #1 into the male side.
Papas poultry thinks that #3&5 look like males, however he did say that without them fluffed up, it was hard to tell for sure.
So it looks like all 3 were cockerels.
Since this was a tiny, tiny sample and I would by no means call this conclusive whatsoever.
So I thought # 5 was the only pullet. I was wrong. There were 3 cockerels out of the 3 eggs.
I just ordered 30 more eggs, to try this again!!
I will not give up!!
I would like a large enough sample to actually have a decent size expierement.

 

[Kiki]

Looking forward to your next experiment.
I LOVE experiments!

 

[lazy gardener]

I think your results are already going to be skewed if you are using shipped eggs. But, it's fun to try anyways! You've got nothing to loose!

By far the most conclusive and easiest/quickest results would be if you were using sex linked eggs. Perhaps I'll do so if I set up my breeding pens this spring.

 

[Kiki]

I think your results are already going to be skewed if you are using shipped eggs. But, it's fun to try anyways! You've got nothing to loose!

By far the most conclusive and easiest/quickest results would be if you were using sex linked eggs. Perhaps I'll do so if I set up my breeding pens this spring.

Yes! Do it!

 

[JaeG]

@lazy gardener
Ok, so after the email, I am just going to throw the half formed chick #1 into the male side.
Papas poultry thinks that #3&5 look like males, however he did say that without them fluffed up, it was hard to tell for sure.
So it looks like all 3 were cockerels.
Since this was a tiny, tiny sample and I would by no means call this conclusive whatsoever.
So I thought # 5 was the only pullet. I was wrong. There were 3 cockerels out of the 3 eggs.
I just ordered 30 more eggs, to try this again!!
I will not give up!!
I would like a large enough sample to actually have a decent size expierement.

Hopefully these eggs will have a safe, uneventful journey to you.

 

[Nksg75]

Your right! I would love to hatch so many eggs, but then I would have to actually have homes for them all when the time came. I want olive eggers, however I am unable to find any locally. So I decided to purchase CCL, and BCM eggs on eBay and go from there. If I am successful at hatching any of them, then I hopefully will have at least one BCM rooster to put with a CCL hen!!
Wala!! I just created my own sexlinked OE to expierement with over and over and over again!!!

 

[Nksg75]

Hopefully these eggs will have a safe, uneventful journey to you.

Yeah, no kidding!! That would be the day!!

 

[Nksg75]

Looking forward to your next experiment.
I LOVE experiments!

Me too! Or is it really an excuse to hatch more chicks??? Hmmm, how to explain an addiction to my husband!!

 

[Kiki]

Me too! Or is it really an excuse to hatch more chicks??? Hmmm, how to explain an addiction to my husband!!

Don't tell him...he will never notice!