Drake or duck? Hmmm.. NEW WITH VIDEO!!!

[spikennipper]

They all appear to be drakes going by the vid and the pics I have not bred ducks before so have no big experience with them but the voice your drake has is still not a big quack like a duck would make which I have heard many times any mounting would also most likely signify drake, their beaks are yellow too where as a duck would have a more orange beak with darker shades, give them a little more time though and you will know for sure.

 

[High Roost Ranch]

The one you had your hand on in the video QUACKED, that would be a hen/duck. The white and the chocolate one from what I can tell are the drakes, I heard their raspy voices I think, or heard it from someone at least. I heard two drakes, and at least one duck in the group. Possible two quacks and two drakes. Pick each one up separately, if it quacks, it's a duck. If it rasps, it's a drake.

 

[scooldog]

Here is a very cool video to sex your baby ducklings! I just hatched out 3 and it works like a charm if you are patient and the little guy doesn't pass out from being held upside down for too long

 

[shelleyd2008]

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My pekin ducks all have yellow bills, the drakes' bills are orange. Mounting can be a dominance thing, it doesn't have to be mating. Males and females both can express dominance by mounting.
I'm not going to say that drakes never quack, though I've never heard one. Perhaps if it is mixed with a call duck, then it would be a quacking drake. All large breed male ducks I've had did not quack.