Too many roosters

[littledon77]

I have been raising chickens for about five years now. I have hatched four or five batches of eggs and have always had good luck with most of them hatching. I usually have an 80 to 90% success rate. All my chicks have been hens with one rooster one time. This last batch I hatch was with new hens and two new roosters, I had to start over recently. 20 of the 22 eggs hatched and 14 of those are roosters. Any ideas what may have happened?

 

[sourland]

The odds have a way of evening out. In my experience given enough chicks hatched slightly more than 50 % are cockerels.

 

[JanetMarie]

Your luck ran out. Welcome to BYC!

 

[Hensndoes]

Yeah chicken math! So. Unlike in humans the hen decides the sex. I'm sure ther is absolutely no scientific evidence to say that a hen has a habit of throwing more pullets than males - but I'm hoping so. I've just hatched my first lot which was all 1 hen under 1 roo and so far 3 that hatched are all girls. This hen earned herself a breeder job