How can this be????

[crj]

I don't know how this is possible unless it's just my usual bad luck. It's really nothing serious just not what I hoped for. I hatched out 6 ducklings so far. I may have one more to hatch. The other 3 may not hatch. Basically I had 6 eggs out of 14 that hatched. Now, get this. I have 5 boys and 1 girl. What am I to do? I am going for females........ ugh. I vent sexed them. I've already put a post on Craigslist. Guess I will have to try again.

 

[gofasterstripe]

Isnt Mother Nature great1!!

 

[dumb_cluck]

Since you cannot "sex" eggs, why not just buy the sexed hens as duckling? Less frustrating.

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

I finished incubated a partial nest of eggs that a dog chased the hen off of. 4 eggs hatched, all 4 were drakes! Very disappointing.

 

[destinduck]

I feel everyone's pain. Sometimes its all females in wild type ducks . Which sucks for me cause everyone wants pairs. but great if its domestic's.You never know.

 

[desertdarlene]

Sometimes, also, in the wild, they hatch out 50/50, but then several die or disappear and you're only left with one and it's a boy (such as in Ducky's case at my lake). I've seen larger families with only males, too.