[Justinwadey]

Last year I hatched 28 eggs, I followed all temperature and humidity recommendation s. All hatched healthy, however 25 of the 28 were cocks. Somone suggested that incubator temp could influence hatching sex. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

[Foxy]

No, the more you hatch eventually the numbers even out to about 60:40 favouring boys. The temp/humidity does not have an affect on sex I'm afraid, 25 out of 28 is unlucky though!!!

[GrannieAnnie]

Very unlucky!  Last year we hatched 24 out of 30 Appenzeller Spitzhauben's and as far as I am aware, only one of them was a boy!!!

[spider]

A friend of mine reckons he hatched 22 consecutive pullets

He also told me he was going skiing with Eddie "the eagle" Edwards 


Spider

[Sarah Mitchell]

Blimey that is bad luck but there's nuffink you can do that I am aware of... although maybe there's an ancient Inca fertility rite you could do to influence the sex of your chicks... there's bound to be something about it on wikipedia!!  Crossing your fingers will probably work just as well tho'.

I had 5 boys out of 6 white pekins... shame - they were so pretty too...