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Poultry and Pets => The Hen House => Topic started by: Justinwadey on January 16, 2010, 23:39

Title: Incubating chicken eggs
Post by: Justinwadey on January 16, 2010, 23:39

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?

Title: Re: Incubating chicken eggs
Post by: Foxy on January 16, 2010, 23:48

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!!!

Title: Re: Incubating chicken eggs
Post by: GrannieAnnie on January 17, 2010, 14:55

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!!!

Title: Re: Incubating chicken eggs
Post by: spider on January 17, 2010, 17:36

A friend of mine reckons he hatched 22 consecutive pullets ::)

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


Spider :)

Title: Re: Incubating chicken eggs
Post by: Sarah Mitchell on January 19, 2010, 13:05

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...