Thanks Moonshiner. I was guessing girls but knew that you all know way more than I do - just finishing up my first year with ducks. And, most likely wishful thinking. I so need girls, and now likely more boys. May have to contemplate an all make flock!
Hi Everyone, I am wondering if you can help us to determine if our ducklings, DeBois & Bayou, who are 6 to 7 weeks old respectively, are male or female using the audio/video files attached? We found the information to try this method from David Holderread’s book “Raising Ducks” - which I...
Somehow the photos of eggs were jumbled, I’m going to put them in order and post here again. There are five eggs, two photos of each one.
Egg 1 - Oldest Egg of the bunch
Egg 2 is marked with a date of 11/27 and 4 is marked 12/7, easily the newest egg in there, having been the last leg laid before the girls stopped laying eggs for Winter. Thanks for your help!
The last egg looks a greal deal like the first duckling, “Persephone Dubois” did. The new duckling’s egg looked much like it too, but I could see motion, tring to internally pip.
Look how quickly they took to one another!😊💚But my, what a difference a week makes in size.😳
I have posted a thread in the Duck Forum asking for thoughts on who the daddy’s might be!