Can U sex a dead duckling?

[PheasantCreekFarm]

Hello, I lost a duckling at 45 days and I had five khaki Campbell’s (one male/4 females). I want to know whether I lost a female or if it was the male I lost.

 

[Kessel23]

Yeah, the reproductive organs are in there somewhere. I have no idea where you would cut into to find it though.

 

[sylviethecochin]

I'm told it's easy to vent sex ducklings. I've never tried. What I have tried is butchering ducks. And I can find the testes if I'm looking. The site below shows pictures of the inside of a dissected drake.

http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/tderting/cva_atlases/canduck/reproduck.htm

 

[PheasantCreekFarm]

I was believing I would just gently apply pressure in the cloaca to see if the male reproductive organ was present- Just feels odd to do and I thought I would ask to see if someone is out there had experience.

 

[sylviethecochin]

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

To bad he is so ruff with the little fluff Nuggets!

 

[PaulX]

Perhaps you can, but at 45 days it's much easier to just voice-sex the rest.

 

[sylviethecochin]

Perhaps you can, but at 45 days it's much easier to just voice-sex the rest.

I'm an idiot.

 

[thumper650]

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I'm an idiot.

Don't feel bad, I missed "the rest" of Paul's post as I was reading it.
Made no sense without "the rest"!

 

[DuckyDonna]

I did worse than that! I read the duck was dead for 45 days and I'm sitting here wondering "how the heck?"