So! This is a post about my duck, Dougie. Despite the male sounding name, I felt pretty certain that she is female- and have already been advised so by one other indivual-
but my mum noticed a tail feather looking like it might be curling, and although I think it's nothing, I want to be sure...
So she is about 13 weeks now, and has been getting her adult feathers in recently. She is VERY quiet. Her sister is very noisy, but Dougie is VERY quiet. She makes very soft sounds, and very, very rarely quacks. Only about three times in her life. Only if I take her sister away for a couple minutes, without me or her sister, she will call for her.
I have seen some behaviours which I believe are related to mating. Recently, for the first time, she climbed onto my lap, grabbed my clothing in her beak, held it tightly, and began pacing leg to leg with a sort of wiggle. She has never hurt me, and generally has a quiet and sweet personality, nibbling me very gently. But this was a first! I figured it was either dominance or mating behaviour and since researching I believe it is simply hormones.
She is slightly smaller than her sister, and her sister is the dominant one of the pair, hence my believe she is female.
Her "quack" is a little raspy, very different than her sister's but not enough so to be a male "squack" I think.
I will attach a link to a video of her quack and photos of her tail (I apologise as it hardly shows up at all, its the very tip, starting to lean in as though it could be starting to curl). (She moved every time I tried to take a photo from the side but will try again later).
She is an aylesbury mix, I believe crossed with pekin.
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Cofirmation would be VERY appreciated!
but my mum noticed a tail feather looking like it might be curling, and although I think it's nothing, I want to be sure...
So she is about 13 weeks now, and has been getting her adult feathers in recently. She is VERY quiet. Her sister is very noisy, but Dougie is VERY quiet. She makes very soft sounds, and very, very rarely quacks. Only about three times in her life. Only if I take her sister away for a couple minutes, without me or her sister, she will call for her.
I have seen some behaviours which I believe are related to mating. Recently, for the first time, she climbed onto my lap, grabbed my clothing in her beak, held it tightly, and began pacing leg to leg with a sort of wiggle. She has never hurt me, and generally has a quiet and sweet personality, nibbling me very gently. But this was a first! I figured it was either dominance or mating behaviour and since researching I believe it is simply hormones.
She is slightly smaller than her sister, and her sister is the dominant one of the pair, hence my believe she is female.
Her "quack" is a little raspy, very different than her sister's but not enough so to be a male "squack" I think.
I will attach a link to a video of her quack and photos of her tail (I apologise as it hardly shows up at all, its the very tip, starting to lean in as though it could be starting to curl). (She moved every time I tried to take a photo from the side but will try again later).
She is an aylesbury mix, I believe crossed with pekin.
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Cofirmation would be VERY appreciated!