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greeneggsandham:

--- Quote from: Beth C on August 29, 2013, 07:32:58 PM ---Gordon I was totally blown away - didn't see that coming at all. I was comparing the toes for gender and the phenotype for leakage and overall color. I would never have even noticed a relationship between gender & phenotype except I keep a master notebook with all the band #s where I record info on each individual bird, and as I was transferring various notes to it I started noticing that all of the ones with a notation of phenotype #3 were pullets, then I started looking at the phenotype #2 birds and sure enough, all male. Now again, this is a very small sampling of birds, I did this early on then got busy and was doing good just to get them toes punched, vaccinated & banded, but I'm definitely going to track them all next season. Would be very interested to hear if anyone else has seen a pattern like this w/in their line!

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Hmmm...now I am curious and going to check my records.  I won't have much to go on, but I do have some type 2 and 3 chicks that I grew out.

Beth C:
Jerry: If you've had any luck at all with vent sexing I'm impressed. I tried it and couldn't find a one that resembled any of the examples I found for either gender! I'm really excited to see what happens next year. This could have just been a fluke, I don't remember the exact number of birds w/o looking back at my book but it was probably less than 20. And results would surely vary by line, since I've heard other people mention type 3 chicks that turned out to be male. But I'm definitely tracking this next year, and would love to compare results.

jerryse:
What has helped me was a dirty jobs show done at McMurry.The vent sexer said the males are shiny.If I breed from correctly sexed birds my percentage improves greatly.

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