I'm about ready to give up!

[gavinandallison]

An old tale of adding ACV to the water increases the chance of females being produced. Many folk I have spoken with said 2010 was a record year for males being hatched, lets hope we can reverse the trend.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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I could bring him in the house an make him watch "Howard the duck" but that may backfire an have him chasing human women.

 

[crj]

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Here it is, 2011, second group hatching, first group 1 girl out of 6, second group 5 boys and 5 yet to find out. I don't see the trend changing unless the other half are girls. Now THAT would be the bomb! I do use ACV

As for the poor, late blooming drakes. I have a bunch of boys that can teach your drakes what to do. Should I make a video for them???? I need a female for my male Pekin I can always trade you for a drake that knows what to do....... LOL. That Pekin is going after my female runner. Not good. I had to kick him out of the coop. Yes, he's that bad........ lol. Gives a new meaning to horny.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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Here it is, 2011, second group hatching, first group 1 girl out of 6, second group 5 boys and 5 yet to find out. I don't see the trend changing unless the other half are girls. Now THAT would be the bomb! I do use ACV

As for the poor, late blooming drakes. I have a bunch of boys that can teach your drakes what to do. Should I make a video for them???? I need a female for my male Pekin I can always trade you for a drake that knows what to do....... LOL. That Pekin is going after my female runner. Not good. I had to kick him out of the coop. Yes, he's that bad........ lol. Gives a new meaning to horny.

 

[crj]

Ok, apparently the duck that is laying the eggs that are producing all boys will be the eggs that go into baking. So far I have 11 baby ducks and 1 is a girl. What are the odds? But......... I do have to check 2 that recently hatched, waiting on them and the last one has not come out of it's shell yet. I have a chance for 3 girls. My guess? I will get 1 which means out of every 6 eggs this duck lays only 1 will be a girl.

 

[Stormview]

Iv Heard If You Keep Your Temp To A Minium U Will Get A Higher Percentage Of Gilrs... I Have Been Doing This In My Incubator.. With Broody Hens Its Up To Sweet Old Mother Nature

 

[Ridgerunner]

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With low incubation temperatures, you get blood rings, dead embryos, late hatching, sticky embryos, large soft-bodied mushy chicks, or chicks dead in the incubator/hatcher. You do not get more females. If this worked, hatcheries would not be hatching out millions of unwanted male chicks.

The hen determines which chromosome the chick gets before the egg starts its journey though her internal egg laying factory. That chromosome does not change during incubation. Biology does not work this way in chickens.

 

[TreeHugger]

I think it's the roll of the dice. The last time I decided to hatch out chicks to add to my flock I got 5 hens out of 6 chicks. The odd part was that my ancient but feisty cat caught one of them and killed it - it just happened to be the male he caught (I was still ticked off at the cat).