How can you tell pekins sex?

[dumb_cluck]

I am looking about adopting a couple "female" pekins, but how can I be sure they are both female?

 

[birdbrain5]

i just got two males, and i was told a males tail feathers have a little curl to them at the tips, and mine do. i havent seen a female pekin but i guess they do not.

 

[Wolf]

Are they in full-feather? If so a Drake will have a ring-curly feather or two coming off his rump and over the tail-feathers.

 

[dumb_cluck]

They are supposed o be "young" like 6 months old. Would the drake have his curl yet? Any quack sound differences?

 

[Luvs chickens]

ducks quack and drakes don't.

 

[DuckLover179]

I have 2 female pekin ducklings (2 weeks). When they get their feathers, the drake will have a curl on the end of his. Drakes quack sounds more like a quiet slurrr, while the hens quack is loud. The hens feet are also supposed to be smaller.

When you get your duckies post pics!

ETA: If your duckies are 6 months old, if they are drakes they should have their curls by then!

 

[bluere11e]

duck hens quack. They are VERY loud and annoying. Drakes make a softer hissing sound (hist, hist)
Don't always count on the ring tailfeather sometimes they get pulled out..lol

 

[AdamD77]

-Ducks quack and drakes do a kind of of squawk/low, raspy quack.
-The drake feathers, however it is possible for them to be male and not have drake feathers - one of my boys has not grown his back after his most recent moult, whereas the other drake has lovely big curly drake feathers.
-Egg laying - if you find eggs, you have at least one female!