Has anyone ever run into the issue that the whole clutch turned out to be male? I recently hatched 2 clutches of Blue Eyed Lucy gene complex babies and gave them a month to grow. I then probed them and they all, 11 of them, seem to be male.
I could be doing this wrong, as this is the first set of babies I have probed myself, but the probe does go a good ways in on all of them. The incubator is kinda large, set to 89 with heat tape, fans, and a bunch of water bottles to help regulate temp. The incubator is out on an air conditioned porch set at 78 degrees.
My theory, if I haven’t probed these completely wrong, is that the temp has caused the eggs to be all male. That could have been in the tubs, inside the moms, but they have both cool (78) side and warm (88) side of the tubs.
So, anyone heard of 2 clutches coming out all male? Is it a temp issue? Or am I just a bonehead who can’t probe his hatchlings correctly?
Thank you all!