Male silkmoths vs. female silkmoths ?

[pyrale]

Does anyone notice they're having more male silkmoths ?
I just had 45 cocoons hatch, only 13 of them were female. On every single cupboard they were put in, there is atleast twice as many males...

[TeckXKnight]

It's entirely random. Bad luck happens.

[Ballie]

Quite the opposite happening to me. I've got mostly females. It's a coin flip. There's no guarantee that because it's a 50-50 chance that the end result will be 50% of each.

[Sevenless]

Sounds like you two should trade then xD

[pyrale]

I'm breeding a second generation from the eggs I got (111 on 13 couples !). I'll look what happens, but I already had trouble catching female moths while some of my friends had trouble catching male moths.

If the bad luck repeats itself, I'll try to investigate on hidden parameters such as genetic predisposition to be male/female (ridiculous but meh), time influence or babysitting character influence on moths.

[TeckXKnight]

If bad luck repeats itself it just means you're an outlier. I advise against attempting a scientific study of these events simply because of the time, energy, sample size, and space requirement of such a test. If you go ahead anyway, I hope you have fun with the project at the very least.

[pyrale]

I advise against attempting a scientific study of these events simply because of the time, energy, sample size, and space requirement of such a test.

Basically, I'm seting up a silk farm. Counting moths won't be such an investment :p.

[Magicman]

I don't think Loftar would of programmed in such extravagant concepts as a genetic factor. Its RNG man