All males?

[Jaxsmitty11]

I got 5 Peking ducks in may. Only one has developed a deep quack that I’ve read means female. I look for the curly tail feathers on the others and don’t see anything. Does that mean they are all males? Or is it still too early to tel for sure?

 

[A Renee]

I got 5 Peking ducks in may. Only one has developed a deep quack that I’ve read means female. I look for the curly tail feathers on the others and don’t see anything. Does that mean they are all males? Or is it still too early to tel for sure?

Mine didn’t get their curly tails until 3 months+. The voices were easier to determine sooner than the curls came in.

 

[indianaducks]

They are likely too young to know by their tail so the only way you can tell right now is by their voice. You could video them and share and then people could help you

 

[ruthhope]

You will begin to recognize females voices, quacks are females. But the silent ones are hard to sex by voice. My son raised three pekins from "day old" ducklings last year. One soon declared herself to be a very noisy little girl. She is crested and smaller than the other two, but makes up for it with very loud quacking. The other two were very similar sized as juveniles. One got a drake feather; one didn't. Both were virtually silent. Who needs to make a noise when you have a very noisy crested duck in the family? This April when the drake was 13 months old, he was rehomed with my drakes. The previously virtually silent duck has taken over as guardian of the flock and she now makes very lound quacking noises. It took her 13 months to quack! Of course we knew she was female as she started laying at 19 weeks and has laid daily since then.

 

[Jaxsmitty11]

You will begin to recognize females voices, quacks are females. But the silent ones are hard to sex by voice. My son raised three pekins from "day old" ducklings last year. One soon declared herself to be a very noisy little girl. She is crested and smaller than the other two, but makes up for it with very loud quacking. The other two were very similar sized as juveniles. One got a drake feather; one didn't. Both were virtually silent. Who needs to make a noise when you have a very noisy crested duck in the family? This April when the drake was 13 months old, he was rehomed with my drakes. The previously virtually silent duck has taken over as guardian of the flock and she now makes very lound quacking noises. It took her 13 months to quack! Of course we knew she was female as she started laying at 19 weeks and has laid daily since then.

Thank you so much for this! I was so afraid I was going to have to rehome 3 ducks. I’ll just be patient and see what happens

You will begin to recognize females voices, quacks are females. But the silent ones are hard to sex by voice. My son raised three pekins from "day old" ducklings last year. One soon declared herself to be a very noisy little girl. She is crested and smaller than the other two, but makes up for it with very loud quacking. The other two were very similar sized as juveniles. One got a drake feather; one didn't. Both were virtually silent. Who needs to make a noise when you have a very noisy crested duck in the family? This April when the drake was 13 months old, he was rehomed with my drakes. The previously virtually silent duck has taken over as guardian of the flock and she now makes very lound quacking noises. It took her 13 months to quack! Of course we knew she was female as she started laying at 19 weeks and has laid daily since then.

here is a video I took this morning of all our ducks and the baby geese wanting some attention athttps://share.icloud.com/photos/08eBPZu3oy3PeGk7kPSQIHlYg

 

[DuneDucks]

here is a video I took this morning of all our ducks and the baby geese wanting some attention athttps://share.icloud.com/photos/08eBPZu3oy3PeGk7kPSQIHlYg

The duck closest to the sprinkler that the video starts focused on is definitely a female. Sounds like there's at least one, maybe two, other females also making noise. A bit hard to tell how many exactly, but I didn't hear any boys in the video for what it's worth. Mine tend to be much quieter while foraging compared to the girls though.

The geese are adorable!

 

[Jaxsmitty11]

The duck closest to the sprinkler that the video starts focused on is definitely a female. Sounds like there's at least one, maybe two, other females also making noise. A bit hard to tell how many exactly, but I didn't hear any boys in the video for what it's worth. Mine tend to be much quieter while foraging compared to the girls though.

The geese are adorable!

Here is a video of everyone making lots of noise. Hopefully this helps. Thank you for your input

 

[DuneDucks]

Here is a video of everyone making lots of noise. Hopefully this helps. Thank you for your input

That helps out more. When you get up to the gate in the video the duck that sounds the loudest and most excited is a female quacking. Towards the end of the video when the last ducks are coming out you hear some quieter, raspier quacks. Those are your drakes. Sounds like there was probably two of them. You can hear them best for a few seconds around the 20 second mark.

Between both videos I'd probably guess 2 girls, 2 boys, and 1 I'm unsure about. Still a bit hard to place which quack is coming out of each duck. If you can identify the different quacks I described from your video, I think you should be able to figure out the 5th easy enough though.