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Help sexing two-month-old snowy call duck?

IoneDexamene

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Jul 20, 2017
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Hello! I'm new to ducks, and I'm totally baffled by the sex of this snowy call:

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Its coloration seems more female, especially compared to my other snowy call (who I'm pretty sure is male), but the head seems a lot darker than most snowy hens. It's also neither honking nor making the raspy sound that the snowy drake does. Instead, it makes a really loud squeaky sound.

Here's the male for comparison:

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If anyone has any tips, that would be great! If it comes to it, I can wait for the green heads to start coming in, but if this duck is male, I'll probably have to swap some drakes for hens to get my gender ratio more reasonable. Thanks!
 

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Hello! I'm new to ducks, and I'm totally baffled by the sex of this snowy call:

UA8HbYz.png

Its coloration seems more female, especially compared to my other snowy call (who I'm pretty sure is male), but the head seems a lot darker than most snowy hens. It's also neither honking nor making the raspy sound that the snowy drake does. Instead, it makes a really loud squeaky sound.

Here's the male for comparison:

sQqTLMA.png

If anyone has any tips, that would be great! If it comes to it, I can wait for the green heads to start coming in, but if this duck is male, I'll probably have to swap some drakes for hens to get my gender ratio more reasonable. Thanks!


Juvenile Snowy coloring can vary quite a bit, and it also is not gender indicative... 8 weeks is *usually* when their voice changes, sounds like that one hasn't changed yet... give it a bit more time to find its voice and you'll be able to tell, long before head color will...
 

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