Hatching egg question

[Happy Chooks]

Now that I'm dealing with a broody, is there a % of male/female in hatching eggs? I'm assuming you tend to get more males than females, but I've never done this before.

 

[bigredfeather]

People say if you have 100 eggs, you will get 50 males/50 females. Somebody else must be getting my females, because all I can hatch is males.

 

[quiltnchik]

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Then someone sure is loaded up with females, 'cause all I'm hatching here are males too!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Darnit................I want a boy (meaning 1), but I want girls too. So I guess I'm either going to let my DH freezer camp them, or I'll have to get chicks to put under her instead of eggs.

 

[bantamsrus]

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Then someone sure is loaded up with females, 'cause all I'm hatching here are males too!

I hatched 20 golden pheasants this year...17 are males. I wonder if they're like alligators and it has something to do with temperature?

Maybe that'll be next year's experiment