Drake or hen runner

[SteffenFamFarm]

Hi everyone,

Hoping someone can help. We’re new to ducks and we definitely have 2 drakes and 2 hens… the last one is a mystery. By theory we have another drake, but the quack is quieter, non honking or toady in sound, but maybe just not mature? This duck does have the curled tail feather but isn’t sexually aggressive like my other drakes. Hoping for some insight

 

[KathiQuacks]

Very handsome drake.. unfortunately a bad male to female ratio, though.

I hope you have a plan to separate your drakes from your chickens. A drake mating a chicken can be lethal.

 

[SteffenFamFarm]

Very handsome drake.. unfortunately a bad male to female ratio, though.

I hope you have a plan to separate your drakes from your chickens. A drake mating a chicken can be lethal.

We separated our other drakes from the hens. I was hoping this one wasn’t a drake but sounds like my suspicion was correct. This one hasn’t gone after our chickens like our other drakes who are separated but perhaps it’s only a mater of time