This particular duck turned out to be a male. I'm guessing that he was just too young to tell the sex at the time of the pictures? But if I got pictures of him next to my drake, you can definitely tell! Maybe it was a female but turned male? I've heard of that happening in ducks before. A flock...
I have no clue what she was eating before. That picture was the day I got her. She's darkened up a little since I got her. She's also quite a bit younger if going by size. She's much smaller than my laying hen. My laying hen is barely smaller than the drake. It's that normal?
I was hoping one of them would be available! They helped me last time. I'm sure that the one on the left is a drake and the other a hen, but I wanted someone more experienced to tell me for sure.
That's what I'm thinking as well. I know they're under a year with the male being quite a bit older...
I got two new ducks this past Saturday. Lovely people here at BYC helped me sex my last duck which was a female and has since started laying. How long does it take a female's eggs to become fertile after having no male around? I'd had her for almost 5 weeks without a male. I know one of the...