Help with Call colour and gender

Kikocake

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Jan 20, 2022
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Hi everyone, this is my first time owning ducks. I have some roughly 8 week old ducklings and was just wanting some help in identifying what colour and gender they appear to be turning out ☺️
 

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I'm not up on call colors, but you will find color charts online for call ducks.

Sexing at eight weeks is easy. Pick one up and if you hear a loud quack it is a female. A softer, raspy voice is a drake. For all mallard derived breeds, it is only the females that are loud.
 
In the first picture, the bird in the center is a color called Blue Fawn, it is the Wild type, mallard's color (called Grey) with one copy of the Blue Dilution gene. Not realy sure what the other's colors are.

Can't tell the sex of the birds from the pictures, the difference at this age is by sound.
 
Sex them by voice. At 8 weeks, you may get lucky and have solid quacks. Usually they still sound pretty peepy at 8 weeks though.

As far as color, @Pyxis is the master.
 

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