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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...

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!

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...