When incubating hatching eggs. Hens / Rooster ratio...

[LittleChicks4Me]

Hello,
Just curious...

Is there a typical ratio of males and females when eggs arrive? Or just have to wait and see?

I am ordering about 6-8 Cochin Bantam eggs half Mottled and half Calico's for my incubator, I am hoping for mostly hens.

But guess nature decides..

I cannot keep more than one rooster...

Thanks..

 

[Aphrael]

The overall ratio of of males to females in hatched eggs is 50/50. However, this ratio may not be seen in such a small number of eggs. It tends to even out over 100's of eggs. But in a small hatch you could see 50/50, all females, all males, or anything in between! You just never know. My first couple hatches of chicks I got about 80-90% cockerels. I thought I was cursed!

But then the numbers evened out more on successive hatches, so it was just one of those things. My first ducks, I hatched 2 got two boys. The second hatch of ducklings, I hatched 5, got 5 girls!

 

[bobbi-j]

I hope you have a plan for the extras if you can only keep one rooster.