Did a little experiment of my own...take the results with a grain of salt....

I'm so excited!! The HE babies are:
9 BOYS and
1 GIRL
82% Success rate so far for the HE diet in rats. These results are really making me happy since I'm currently swaying. Seeing how drastically the diets effect the offspring gender is crazy. I admit I was a little bit in denial that diet would effect the genders as much as it does, but now it makes me even more determined to try to keep up with my diet.
One thing I should add is that I left the male in longer this time since I read on here that HE dieters where doing more than one attempt. Not sure if that is why the results are so much better this time or if it's not related at all.
In October I'm going to breed again, but this time I will be doing two females, one with HE and one with LE diet. Should I change the male diets as well? Or should I continue with the females doing the diet and keeping the LE girl to one attempt and HE girl to multiple??

I absolutely love this thread!!! Thank you so much for updating and keeping me on the straight and narrow when I was starting to falter a little bit! And best of luck with your own sway x

Super cool! Keep up with the good work!

Shut the front door!!! This is beyond cool!


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Kitty- first of all this is Ah-MAZING!! To answer your question, I would stick to only the females doing the LE diet and the HE diet and stick to one attempt for the LE female and multiple attempts for the HE female by leaving the male in longer. I think this will be great by not adding too many other variables with the males on the diets too, yk? I would make sure both males have the same standard diet and whatever regular exercise they normally get. I think this simulates what normally happens when us females decide to sway.

As a science teacher and researcher, I commend your adherence to sticking with traditional scientific methods for this study of yours. It could seriously be something that could be published- great work [emoji122]🏼!!


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Wow, amazing! Love it! Love your experiments and love your results!! :) looking forward to your Oct round as well! :)

I would like to see the results repeated before you change it, just to be sure it isn't a fluke! AAA so exciting, THANK you for doing that!

Awesome stuff. This makes me want to be alot more stricter this cycle 😊

Mum to 4 Boys awaiting her Princess

Looking forward to next months experiment! Maybe you could do the one attempt with both the HE and LE and then on Jan/Febs breeding you could do multiple attempts for both HE and LE and see the outcomes as these are both major factors.

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Awesome stuff. This makes me want to be alot more stricter this cycle ��

Mum to 4 Boys awaiting her Princess

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Stricter isn't always better though. When people get super strict, esp. after dieting for a while already, you can end up delaying or even stopping ovulation. We have seen best results with 12 or more weeks on diet (and most people are much more laid back by that point) instead of hitting it hard and being very strict for only 2-4 weeks, so that indicates to me that it's length of time on diet and not strictness per se that is working. Slow and steady wins the race.