4 week old muscovy

[Lavonne1988]

New to the ducks! And looking to find out the sex of our 4 week old friend If anyone can help?

 

[Daphne_loves_mealworms]

New to the ducks! And looking to find out the sex of our 4 week old friend If anyone can help?

Welcome! I don’t know the answer, but he/she sure is cute! Do you have any other Muscovy ducklings to compare him or her to?

 

[Lavonne1988]

Thank you! Yes definitely cute, has so much personality. This ones egg cracked and mum kicked it out of nest. Took a while to come good. We have others but different ages so a bit hard to tell. And they honestly look the same to me

 

[Daphne_loves_mealworms]

Thank you! Yes definitely cute, has so much personality. This ones egg cracked and mum kicked it out of nest. Took a while to come good. We have others but different ages so a bit hard to tell. And they honestly look the same to me

Hopefully, some of the more experienced ‘Scovy people will chime in. I’ve only had Muscovies for 1 and 1/2 years. It took me over 4 months to determine the gender of my two...

 

[Daphne_loves_mealworms]

Thank you! Yes definitely cute, has so much personality. This ones egg cracked and mum kicked it out of nest. Took a while to come good. We have others but different ages so a bit hard to tell. And they honestly look the same to me

For comparison, here’s what my two hens looked like when they were slightly older than your little guy/gal.

 

[Lavonne1988]

Hopefully! Yes that would be me also haha. I’ve been googling but I’m still unsure.

 

[Lavonne1988]

For comparison, here’s what my two hens looked like when they were slightly older than your little guy/gal.

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Naw cute! I’m hoping our little one is a girl!

 

[Corinia]

It's really hard at that age, we would guess with ours, but were normally wrong. You can sex them, but I was told you can really seriously hurt them if you do it wrong. Best bet is to wait for their tail feathers to come in, if they are curly, its a drake. Also, male ducks sound like grumpy old men, where females quack. Hope this helps... eventually!

 

[Lavonne1988]

Thank you, we’ve got some small tail feathers already through, yes I’ve heard vent sexing is hard and can harm so steering clear of that lol

 

[Miss Lydia]

Muscovy don’t get curled tail feather or quack loud so that won’t work . I’d give it a few more weeks.