LuciferRoo
Songster
Don't feel too bad. You lost the chicken lottery.My past two hatches have been much lower percentage rate than previously. I used to get 26 to 27 eggs hatching out of 30 in my MalticoopX - but my last two hatches have been only 20-21 out of 30. I haven't been able to solve the high humidity though - because it has been unusually humid here. it has been as high as 65 - which I know is way too high. So I don't know how to adjust that. Then with this last hatch, I started eggs from my new Comets - and 5 didn't hatch, of the 9 that hatched I got 8 males and only 1 female. Is it because of the humidity being too high? Or is it my young rooster? Thanks for any help (picture is Comets with Cream Legbars - 8 white males, one red female Comet)
I've been there. I remember getting 7 rooster out of 9. Then ordering 12 female chicks, and getting 13, 7 of which were boys.
I think I had a hatching of 10 and got only 1 female.
In the end, I was so defeated that I decided to only buy pullets or grown hens.
Even then, one of my 5 pullets turned out to be a boy.