This video should be KZfaq recommendation. I vote for it. 12 minutes full of information that can be more than hours in others channel. Thank you very much, I love it.

I used the pointy/rounded egg trick and got 10/10 hens with it. I've ALWAYS gotten half hens and half roos before I tried it. So as someone who had actually tried that method, it worked. I'm excited for another hen to go Broody so I can try out again, because 10/10 is more than a coincidence.

One of the most intriguing videos about chickens I've ever watched! You've earned another subscriber! Will be sharing your videos in some chicken groups on social media as well.

Very interesting, thank you. You always make great, well researched videos and your technical expertise improves each time.

I am so glad I found your video, getting ready to incubate some chicken eggs this year. No trying to over think it, just do it. I have 3 hens and 1 rooster, who lay more than enough eggs for my husband and I, but they will be slowing down this year or next. So wanting to add some hens, and don't want to worry about outside diseases and viruses. Thanks again

This was so informative! Thank you for do this research!

Love it!!! All the way from Louisiana, USA.

Just loved it. Fully researched and authentic information. Just facts no bullshit. 😊

Your Anconas are so much fun!! We bought one chick this year, and I’m hoping for a white-egg-laying hen!!

Best chicken information channel. Thank you

I've rescued 2 adorable chicks from becoming cat's meal last July 18,a yellow/white color I named Lovely Pearl,and a black one 23 days ago I named baby Plum.I have no idea/experience about raising chickens but I felt taking them out of their tiny cage and into the front yard so they can eat grasses,small worms,exercise and sunlight is best for these little babies.They follow me around,they panic if I'm out of their sight, I always carry the tiny cage wherever I go bathroom,kitchen garden.I did not expect they could be so sweet they're my little loves now.I learn so much from your videos esp what to feed them. These babies here must not be slaughtered.They must live a full life.They earned it.Thank you I'm a new subscriber.

Great content as usual. Cheers from Mexico

Very well done. Very informative thank you

Thanks for sharing! So so interesting

Very helpful

Thank you, great information ❤

Excellent video. Thank you.

THANKYOU 😀 For share your expertise

Pointy egg method has been working for my grandparents and me too for years and years and years.

Dang you've done your research; ill sub for that

Thank you enjoying your channel

0.53 that cute little rooster is 😍

Very interesting thanks for sharing

So happy to have found your channel... there's a lot of b.s. channels... I was born a city boy but fell in love with the natural world early and now have a few birds and other animals lol because I didn't grow up around chickens... I have read a few books. And it helps to get the scientific facts.

Very interessting! Thank you for your clear explination! (Sorry if my spelling is incorrect. I'm dutch )

thank you for the vid.

My hen Pearl has been OBSESSED with roosting for a long time now and the prospect of getting her eggs has started to come up. We had to give her sister Ebony fertile eggs a few years ago from Craigslist because she refused to stop roosting and it was effecting her health. The problem was, she only hatched one chick and it was a boy. We live in the city limits and couldn't legally keep him, so when he started to crow, we had to give him away. And since we keep them primarily as pets just like a dog or cat, there was a lot of heartbreak and we don't want to have to do that again. So I'm trying to figure something out.

Fascinating! Automation and technology is truly the future!

Thanks for the thorough examination of the old wives tales methods. I sort of feel the same way about the theory of evolution that birds were reptiles. Close examination of all the characteristics that differ pretty much relegates that to the OWT bin as well.

Well done! Could one (time-consuming) alternative be through selective breeding? I.e could it be that some hens' genetics somewhat favour one gender (say 60/40 instead of 50/50), or should we expect virtually all hens to have a 50/50 distribution?

What kind of chooks are the speckled ones in the background of this video?

Very interesting. Never heard of thé température trick! I would like to try. What is the lowest conservation temperature and the highest hatching temperature to encourage only female chicks to develop and hatch please? Thank you so much it would help me a lot. I am accumulating roosters 😂! as I am unable to eat or harm them….And the young chicks each spring are still a must for me breeding.

I wonder if major hatcheries in the US will be starting to use these techniques soon. It would make things so much simpler for everyone involved.

Lovely video. I do plan on hatching some of my hens eggs soon. As like everyone else I've been concerned about getting all roosters. I have a rooster now. He's mean. No, I will not be culling him. Nor do l want to do that to any of his offspring. I just worry about having too many roos.. I guess I still have some thinking to do.

Yes, you can, two methods, the first method is to train a dog to smell baby roos at one day old, then have the dog smell the eggs at 3 days of incubation, the dog is 100% at finding the eggs that are male. The other is at incubation, set the temp to 101.5 for two days, the male eggs will die, then set the temp back to 99.5 F and finish the 21 days, only female eggs hatch, but on day 4 you can pull the eggs that show no signs of life. But do not exceed 48 hours at 101.5 all the eggs will die if you do. It's 95 to 99% effective.

interesting

I figure that roosters get cooked the hens stay to lay eggs. I just got rid of 4 roos

You have a chicken just like Austin Powers!

Thanks so much for your explanation of male vs female I started raising naked neck chicken because my neighbor had chickens and I wanted to be able to tell who were my chickens and they are different I have a few hens and I'm incubating eggs and have gotten more males than females lucky I guess 😢 . But your video helped me very much thanks

This was very interesting! I learned a lot about chickens and what you said about why the avian dinosaurs survived makes sense...but then it makes me question how crocodiles and alligators survived since they're also from that period, as are salamanders. 🤔

Last week i hatched my first batch of chicks at my place and found a fascinating thing which let me yo this video. The plan is to have them be laying henns at my work. I ordered 22 eggs, 3 of them were longer in shape the others all more the traditional egg shape. I now have 13 chicks and tried the wing method of sex determination. I found, if this is valid, i would have 1 rooster and 12 henns. I looked back at the eggs that didn't hatch and the notes i took and found this 1 possibly only rooster came from one of the longer eggs, the other 2 never hatched. I would love to believe the methods are right, gonna try it out a next time

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Can we hatch an egg layed thru layer feeding ma'am. Imean commercial eggs.

Very interesting Sheryl! Fascinating to know that some commercial growers can weed out the almost useless males 😆

Thanks lady, I was getting a bit frustrated with the old wives tales. Be happy with what you get. I'm getting a quality incubator, will check out the Dutch company, otherwise I've got the British make brinsea.

my girls don't have a male, so non of them are fertilised. My youngest lays long thin eggs, the other older ones lay fat round ones.

As a male, I feel a bit threatened. Lol. Great video.

Can you use the roosters as meat! At least then your not just killing them for no good reason. At what age would they be harvested? Thank you.

Do people raise capons anymore

We make a gumbo with the male chicks at around 30 days old.

Do you have a degree? Cayse a university in Sydney did studies and found you can influence the sex by temp BEFORE incubation. They dont do overnight studies either

Poor little male chicks

Madam if don't mind what's your qualifications. Love from India 🇮🇳

The only way I know to ensure the sex of the chicks. Basically it works because they are temperature dependent. It's not that all will be boys or girls. But the boys won't hatch if it's cooler and the hens won't hatch if it's too hot. I know this to be fact with quail

Lol. We need her voice now more than ever. Male is male.

Thank you for mentioning the connection to global warming and the leatherbacks.

I honestly thought the male chicks were raised to be KFC 😬

how do you ban killing chicks? How else do you hatch specific ratios of males to females? Obviously noone is going to listen to those laws. Also, how are you supposed to be happy with what you get? If you are feeding your family with these chickens isnt the proporation of males to females pretty important? I dont think a few unenforcable laws are going to stop homesteaders from doing what needs to be done to maintain their flocks.

Baby chicks yes are adorable and just so wonderful to watch and interact with and want you to make more. Which is why I am here my cousin wants to kill all the male chickens so of course I only want to hatch females. Wise people understand if you keep a chicken you can eat every day for years but if you kill it you eat once! I wont go into all the issues like chemicals pushed into the animals causing human females to breast at early ages or causing cancer, nor even what is happening to your brain and body once you eat meat nor will I discuss the religious aspects of animals receiving the first blessing but right now I would like everyone to understand that Chickens are a clock of day and season and could be used for Management Science. They have a plan and move about the neighborhood covering their territory ensuring the grass is checked and bugs consumed as well as alerting residents of intruders. They are sensitive to humans and will come the minute they hear my voice following me around the yard or coming from houses down the block to my voice if I decided to call them for a treat. If I leave to run to the neighborhood store, they will be at the garage waiting for my return then get excited to see me. They are very friendly and really pay attention if I try to communicate with them in their language. I never intended on getting chickens but my neighbor had purchased some babies from Tractor Supply but then had a heart attack (bad lifestyle habits). So instead of killing them or starving them to death with them just packing and leaving without caring for their responsibilities I bought them for a few dollars. Anyway I now supply the whole neighborhood with eggs and what is the egg price right now, well over $5.00 and free range $12 but mine are completely free to do as they wish and I don’t charge the neighbors for bug control nor helping their lawn with free fertilizer. I have watched many of the new chicken videos with people discussing buying them cabbage or noodle all of which is ONLY for chickens penned up in cages the chickens I have or really that have me do not care about such things but do like the grubs as treats and I have wondered if its only because they are bug adverse and love clean environments because heaven forbid if I spill some on the backs of the chickens they get traumatized. I found barn kittens because they told me the little kittens were there and now I have little kittens taking care of mice and what I hate most of all Snakes! UGH anyway back to happy positive life fulfilling life forms that we need and really make our lives full and have given me a great respect for the orchestration of the planets schedule; Chickens, Bugs, Birds, Bats, Possums etc. Anyway this is a wonderful video thank you.

I hatched 6 eggs. All of which were roosters. That sucks. I'm just going to buy some sexed chicks.

Well you had me until the global warming.

Roosters are for meat Hello not hard

Transgender chicks? Lol