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Bluerosy
at Wed Aug 8 12:58:03 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Bluerosy ]
I beleive it does.
That may explain the Peanut Butters the first 3 years i produced them I had only male PB's and no females. Just male and female hets. I had 6 cltches per year and not a single female PB. Then in 2005 I had a female and then several female PB's in 2006. Same this year.
I had the same thing happen with the hybrids. Alsways high males. Extremely high on very single clucth. There was a lot of clcuthes I produced so the odds were very unlikly this happened by chance. The room i incubated was a large walk in closet with a door on each side. it was alway cools and my incubation times was always way over 60 days. This year I incubated in a diferent warmer part of the house and got mostly even sex ratios and ven high females for the PB"s. But I also had late clutches. about a mont behind previous years..so maybe that effectes sex? Or maybe it is a way a male or female is brumated (temps , food conditions) that can cause sex determintion. I don't know just guessing other variables that could cause sex determination besides incubation temps. Playing devils advocate here on a tangent.
This sort of thing (cool temps/longer incubation period=high male ) has been going on for years for me. But as you said it was always dispelled by the "experts" so i ignored what was happening to a fault. I just figured I had bad luck. Thats what you get for listening to "armchair scientists" (armchair are those sceintists who come up with theories and don't do things themselves, usually those with a large college education). You see a lot of that in the nutrition and suppllement industry as well. Doctors who look like crap telling you to eat this and that. LOL!
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RE: Temp-controlled sexing - works in a pit - Bluerosy, Wed Aug 8 12:58:03 2007