Fact ! not fiction.No, the majority of hatched chicks are not male. If you were to hatch 1000 chicks or more, you're statistically likely to come up really close to even numbers on males and females. However, most people only hatch a hand full at a time, so those numbers seem skewed just because the sample size is so small. And, let's face it, people tend to post more about things that they've had rotten luck with to commiserate with others about, so you're likely to see more posts about high-percentage-male hatches. That doesn't mean that high-percentage-female hatches don't happen as well!
I will give you an example. My last three hatches of my silkied Cochin bantams have gone like this:
3 females, 1 male
5 females, 4 males
4 females, 8 males
Individually, the first one looked great, second not bad, and the third... yikes. But, if you add them all together, the totals are 12 females and 13 males. Pretty close to 50-50, right? It's like flipping a coin 10 times versus flipping a coin 100 times. You might just happen to get more tails flips right at the beginning, making it seem like you're more likely to flip tails if you only look at that first 10 flips. But by the time you hit 100 flips, odds are you'll be closer to an even count between heads and tails overall. A small snippet like hatching only a few eggs at a time does not change that the odds are still 50-50 on each individual egg hatching male or female.
It's impossible to say if you'll get an even number of males and females in your hatch, if you'll get more males, or if you'll get more females. With a small hatch, anything could happen. All you can do is try your luck and see what you end up with.
