Any idea what gender?

[CalliBee]

I have 2 four week old Pekin’s and I’m really curious what gender they are! I’ve checked their vent and to me they look female but… I’m not the most qualified person for that
What do y’all think?

I’ve seen where bill color can indicate gender (orange- boy/pink- girl) so I would assume the one with the orange bill was a drake. However, I know sexing by sound is pretty reliable and the orange bill is the only one that is quacking yet and quacks often. And since females are loud it makes me think orange bill is a female?

Pink on the bill seems to indicate female… but it doesn’t ever quack so drake? (It does peep a lot though) Also, pink bill is smaller than orange bill so back to thinking female?!

Also, not sure if you can tell with the pictures, orange bill is growing in some tail feathers. Could these be its drake feathers? The other one is growing in feathers but not on its tail as fast as orange bill is.

It’s all making my head spin! What do you guys think? Any help is appreciated

 

[Miss Lydia]

If females you should begin to hear a quack in between peeps soon. it sounds like a honk. Only females do this drakes will peep longer and when they do get their voices they have a raspy one no quacks.
Pretty ducklings

 

[Knighstar679]

The most reliable way is with the voice at this age. They right now just look like very cute ducklings

 

[CalliBee]

If females you should begin to hear a quack in between peeps soon. it sounds like a honk. Only females do this drakes will peep longer and when they do get their voices they have a raspy one no quacks.
Pretty ducklings

Does the color of their bill to help identify sex hold any truth?

 

[Miss Lydia]

I'm not sure maybe try looking it up online.

 

[ruthhope]

We have a female pekin who didn't make a sound for her first year. She had a very noisy sister [and I mean loud and nonstop shouting] and a brother who identified himself as a drake by constant sotto voce talking to the two girls. We have had to move the drake to my drake flock, and now the previously silent female has become loud!!! A feral rooster moved into the yard, and she is shouting warnings to her very noisy sister and the muscovy female who lives with them, all the time. She also shouts whenever I arrive as she is always hungry -- she has laid daily since last July. So if you have a silent duck, you cannot be certain of its sex -- check to see if it has a drake feather -- curled -- in its tail feathers.

 

[raingarden]

Most will change from pink bill to yellow but some never change. Yellow bill is often, but not always, male. Yours are not old enough to have settled into a bill color. Mine started getting tail feather curl in males about the same time the females started making a strong quack.