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I have just started hatching chickens and every time ive ended up with mostly cockerels and only one or 2 hens from about 12 eggs? I obviously can't keep the cockerels and no one want cockerels. Might be a very stupid question but is it just bad luck? Or how does people end up hatching so many...

Thank you. Its not every day but fairly often. Today i found blood on the floor too and non of the ducks are injured sp can only assume its come from the same duck as the bloody egg. Anything i can do to help her? Thank you!

My ducks has only started laying eggs in the last couple of months and the last few days I've found eggs with blood on it. Is this normal when they start laying or is there an injury I need to check for? Any ideas please. I'm new to all this. Thank you!

Okey, thank you! Thats very helpful!

I keep them in an old stable over night and they are free range in the day. Nothing poisonous around the feeder. I have now 7 ducks. 3 males and 4 females and 14 chickens and 1 cockerel. I feed the chickens and ducks together. I'm very new with ducks but have kept chickens for years.

So I have just started keeping ducks. I successfully hatched 9 last September. A week ago today I found one of my ducks dead (and half eaten) by the feeder. I keep my ducks with my chickens. It was a male so I thought maybe the males started fighting and then the chickens stred pecking him...