Unbelievabley unlucky hatch!

[jblackb042]

I’m sorry about your luck.
When I started with poultry, I was against it. Now I see the wisdom. If you aren’t keeping any, snap their neck now. It’s so quick, and feeding them to give away for free is wasting your money.
I’m not going to write a novel, but for anyone horrified at the idea, please remember what hatcheries do to males. This really isn’t a mean thing.

My wife and kids won’t allow it. Plus I do want to keep 2 of them for my flock if I manage to hatch some females next time. So I will grow them out some and keep the best 2 specimens. I may actually be able to use another over some of my brown egg layers (for OE) since I had to put down a SLWD rooster that went after my wife and daughter last week.

 

[WVduckchick]

I’ve hatched 7 chicks from my CL flock so far, and 6 have been males. So I feel your pain. (3 were hatched by broodies, 4 incubated by me) I have several more due to hatch next week. I’m due for an all-female hatch, right?.

 

[Sueg4332]

Here are 4 of them, the other 2 are still drying off in the hatcher.
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I'd say males

 

[Sueg4332]

That is highly possible, I will make sure that doesn’t happen again. Along with getting them from another breeder. Thank you for the information.

when I hatch my legbars years ago. I hatched mostly females. But when I sold eggs to people they would hatched mostly males. I could not figure that one out.
I had bought from 4 different breed around the USA . The eggs that hatched best came from the farthest distance way Florida. The worst hatch was from California. The state I live in...
I haven't hatched chicks in 2 or 3 years in the incubator just barn hens hatch.
But I feel the itch coming on.. I will cross a good Ameruacana Rooster that came from a good line of dark blue eggs to the remaining cream crest legbars hens.
I was never really happy with egg color I got from the legbars.

 

[Naser]

Last year I had two broody hens, each hatched 5, 10 cockerels

 

[cppeace]

Yep odds can be rough for sure sometimes lol