efowl afoul?

[chasing ducks]

I am not a fan of efowl myself, but I have to defend the birds. The birds, at least mine, came from Metzer Farms in California, I ordered through efowl. I believe they are just brokers, I don't think they have actual birds themselves.

 

[LittleSquidgenHome]

I had a hatch this season of 12 muscovy, and only 3 are girls, leaving me with 9 boys to send to freezer camp or rehome. Sometimes the ratio just sucks.

 

[halo]

Straight run does not guarantee you a 50/50 ratio, any more than hatching chicks does.

 

[duckluv]

I've heard that efowl gives you all of their exess males if you order straight run, but the quality of the birds depends on the breed.

 

[Buck Creek Chickens]

straight run means you get the sex no one else wanted, in egg layers its roo's, in meat birds its hens, in breeds that have pretty boys and plain low eggs laying you get hens. what they do is sex everything then fill the orders. whats lift is what straight run gets. so if the day you order all the hens are sold you get the roo's. that why I never recommend straight run, its cheaper to buy the amount of girls you want and boys, then if its wrong you can complain,
the only Fair straight run is in birds that are not sold sexed too

 

[redhen]

This spring i hatched out 12 ducklings... only 3 were hens.

 

[Buck Creek Chickens]

i've all ready hatched 100% hen and 100% roo's in hatching you cross your fingers and hope for what you want. but i thought we where talking shipped birds

 

[CityChicker]

I think people should avoid making accusations if they don't know what exactly the truth is. Of course, some of what has been said about Efowl is true. That said, you should have ordered hens if you wanted hens. Even when you breed 20-30 birds, you can have almost all of them be one gender. It is just the way it is (unusual as it may be). Nature does not do things in perfect 50-50 ratios. Granted, the larger the number, the higher the likelihood is to get that ratio. I have seen some situations that would shock you though. I only got a couple drakes out of the 30 or so Overbergs I bred this year! I have a couple Runner varieties that were the opposite- drakes 10 to 1. It is odd, but it happens.

 

[LuckyDuck411]

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I ordered the Pet Pekins off efowl early this summer, which was straight run. Its supposed to be 2 ducks, but when the box arrived I had 3! My order was also fulfilled from Metzer's and I LOVE my ducks! They are happy and health. However I was fortunate and got 2 females and 1 male. Its really no fault of the hatchery when you don't specify. Its just which duckling stood still long enough to be picked up!

Sorry about your luck, but I would not be blaming anyone on this.

 

[babylady4]

I order a mixed bag of calls from them this year. I did not get to pick breed or sex and I ended up with only two males out of the six. I currently have 8 calls and all of them are different colors of grey, magpied, black, bibbed, pastel, and a buff caramel. Beautiful!

I am not a breeder but these ducks are the same size and shape as the one from sundownwaterfowl and alpineranch......... so I think they will do just fine.