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I made the mistake of comparing daily weight gains of my first Muscovy with weight gain charts I found on the internet. I was convinced my boy was female at 7 weeks old as he was growing along the female growth line -- the drakes' growth rate starts increasing bove the female's growth rate from...

Muscovy females stop growing at about 8 weeks old whereas males continue to grow up to 12 weeks. By 8 weeks old, the boys are obviously larger than the girls. I would not try and sex them until they are fully feathered and 8 weeks old. By then, the females may have started "babbling" away...