When do ducklings start quacking?

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laurapea said:
My 2 week old white pekin has started making a different noise inbetween the usual peeps which sounds a bit like a honk! It’s deeper than a peep but obviously still quite high.

Is this going to develop into a quack? Or is this duckling a mistaken goose? Haha! The other duckling doesn’t make it. I wondered if the one honking was a girl and the other was a boy but then reading here now I’m not sure at all as they’re both still so young compared to all of yours.
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Pekins are very fast growers so its a possibility.
 
A couple of my Swedish blues, right around 2 weeks, just started making little sounds like squeaky toys, very different from the cheeping. But I have no idea if those are precursors to quacking or to whatever sound it is that drakes make. It's adorable, but what does it mean?
 
Or, how about this? When I was carrying them two-by-two from a pen in the back to their pen on the front porch, some of them had ear-piercing protests, and a few of them made hardly any noise at all, but a little rasping sound. They're almost three weeks old. Is that a sex difference? Or is it still too early to tell?
 
RavenStorm said:
Both of my older girls started to have "cracking" voices that would start out as a cheep but end in a semi-quack around 2-3 weeks. They weren't real quacks but darn, it was unbelievably adorable. I'm not sure really when they started to full-on quack though, sorry.
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That's what mine, at two weeks, have started doing. I teared up the first time I heard it; it felt like my little ones were growing up so fast! But yes, it is unbelievably adorable!!
 
Just trying to work mine out and came across this thread which is very amusing as it's all the things I've been hearing and pondering!
I have 9 runners at 7 weeks old, 3 are definitely girls and have been making lots of quacks from about 3 weeks. A few of the others showed promise a few weeks back, but have gone quiet on me now.
I have a slightly older one who started to rasp at 10 weeks (she did quack when we left the room when she was little) a few weeks later, I'm still holding out for a quack and hoping the curly tail doesn't appear....
 
Hi, I’m responding to this very old forum question, but these answers helped me recently, so I thought I would add my recent experience. My Pekin duckling absolutely started quacking at 2 weeks old. These ducklings were sat on and hatched by my hen, so I know their exact age, and it was definitely a real quack at 2 weeks and 3 days old. So, yes, they can quack very early. BTW I love this forum, I always find a subject and answer I need.
 

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