Blue Swedish duck

[Amanda0609]

Thanks for sharing the pictures! Very pretty ducks! I really don't care either way what I have, I'm just excited to know so I can pick out a good name! Thanks for all the help I will check out the other posts. Thanks for all the help everyone!

 

[One Acre Wonder Farm]

I have 10 Swedish ducks. The girls took a break laying from September till February. They may lay year round if you use artificial light. I started lighting mine at the end of January and it took about 3 weeks to start getting eggs again.

I can only compare their volume to Pekins and they were about the same. Boys are generally pretty quiet, girls can be noisy when they want something (food!) but otherwise are not terribly noisy.

As far as flying goes, some of mine can get about 4 feet off the ground and can go for 20+ feet, sometimes longer (probably 50' or so was the longest I've ever seen them fly). They don't do it very often but they can acheive some height/distance (well, for a big duck anyway

)when they want to. Mine free range so they have ample room to get a good running start for some flying practice

I absolutely adore my Swedish ducks

I'm sure you will too

 

[Wyo Chick]

Thank you! Very helpful

 

[ohh duck]

I bought 10 blue Swedish ducks this spring. Three are males, and seven females. I can tell you first hand that they are loud. I'm getting nervous about it because I'm afraid my neighbor will complain. The only good thing is, they have an illegal apartment so I don't think they will call the town. Still I don't like to annoy people. If you have only one, you may be okay.
Joe

 

[nikkster1999]

I own two Blue Swedish ducks and they do quack but not very loudly. Mine do fly (i dont want to clip their wings) but they always come back. they just fly circles around my house then after my pekin freaks out (because he is too fat to fly) they land. I dont think it is very necessary to clip their wings.

 

[RacerWife7]

It is a lot easier if you have two to compare but if yo only have one you just have to listen closely. At about 8 weeks old my females voice started to change. It changed from the duckling noises that they make to a more quack sound. The male kept that duckling squeek. The "quack " that you think of with a duck only comes from females. The males make a hissing raspy noise. If you can't tell by the voice then at about 12 weeks males get a drake feather. The drake feather is at the end of the tail and it is one or two feathers that curl over. Only drakes get that. So at the ealiest maybe 6 weeks if the female is going to start quacking soon and latest around 12 weeks old. Then you will deffiantly hear the quack or raspy noise or see a drake feather.

Ebony my male (see the curled feather at the end of his tail)

Cocoa my female (notice her straight feathers at the end of her tail, plus she has an "egg belly" in this pic, males don't get one like that)

Here is the link to "sexing ducklings" that is here on the Sticky Posts in the duck section of BYC. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=181147

My Swedes are 5 weeks old and one of them is in the awkward teenage stage already - every time she peeps, it starts out as a "peep" but ends up in a LOUD "quack". When she gets worked up, it sounds CRAZY! But, my suspected male still has a quieter, more raspy peep to his voice. ...This is just one of the reasons I believe them to be a male and a female. Think I might be correct??

 

[jellybellyx6]

They are not loud but yours may quack more often if you have a friend for it. I would explain that to the hubby and see if you can have just one more duck so that you keep the noise down. Blue Swedish are also considered a rare breed so if you get a male and female you can always incubate or let them hatch their own eggs and sell them. They are really easy to sell. I can't wait to get some more. Ours never flew but it may because they never had a reason to since there was plenty of bugs for them to eat when they didn't want to eat the game bird feed.

 

[RacerWife7]

They are not loud but yours may quack more often if you have a friend for it. I would explain that to the hubby and see if you can have just one more duck so that you keep the noise down. Blue Swedish are also considered a rare breed so if you get a male and female you can always incubate or let them hatch their own eggs and sell them. They are really easy to sell. I can't wait to get some more. Ours never flew but it may because they never had a reason to since there was plenty of bugs for them to eat when they didn't want to eat the game bird feed.

Thanks, jellybellyx6... they do have a friend. I also have a mallard (in my avatar) who is the same age as the Swedes. Actually, I got the Swedes to keep my mallard company! LOL! As it turned out, they're all the same age.

 

[AprilFurey]

Hello
I have 2 ducks, I was told when I purchased them,that they were Blue Swedes. I have posted their pictures as babies on here before and once someone commented that my Black one looked a little too black, which made me wonder if one of them is something else. I think I have a male and a female, based on the fact that the black one quacks...loudly... And the grey one makes the raspy cheep.....but I see no drake feathers :-( they just have the same behind. Can someone let me know ? They're so beautiful to me, especially with the little poof of Afro on the top

 

[Amiga]

AprilFurey they are so beauuuuuuuutiful!