So....we have ALL males.

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So sorry about the all males. I was lucky this year. Out of 8 st. run I had 2 drakes and 6 ducks.

Wow! that is unreal lol

 

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No way, dude. I'm with you. I bought 10 French BCM chicks. 10. Got 2 females. :| I paid $18 each for these chicks...so 8 males at $18 a pop. Ouch. LOL So my good fortune extends to chicks too lol. Although the breed of chickens I only wanted a couple of? I ended up with 2/3 being ladies and 1/3 being males. The FBCM I wanted as many ladies as possible. Go figure. haha! Now that I know some breeders- I happily buy started pullets and spend the extra money. ha!

Now that would have been painful. My drake run were all my own so i'm not actually out money in the purchasing sense. My original flock of 4 straight run yielded 50/50.

 

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I wondered about that with the feed stores. I like our ducks but we are thinking about selling them and starting over next year with females. Buying them sexed from Metzer. We thought we would save money this way but we don't get what we want.

That's why i drove hours! to get my chickens i wanted sexed. I don't mind my drakes but i do have the girls to offset..

 

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You can actually vent sex at the store before you buy? Maybe a dumb question but I had never thought of that. I haven't ever bought chicks/ducklings from a feed store before. Been awfully tempted though

Where i am you couldn't do that, usually over 90% of the birds brought in are on a pre-order.

and off topic but ML when did you become a mod? i must have missed this, congrats!