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I think our ducks are a bit flighty as they were bought at 10ish days old already at the farm store. I'm guessing they're more tame if handled from day 1 or so? I don't know really, I'm asking more then stating here lol
 
Also, I do think that black duck is probably a drake, it hissed at me yesterday. The one I named friendly started whacking like crazy last night. Hopefully I can trade the boys off for some girls as I'm really wanting more duck eggs. Or maybe just trade the one boy? What exactly are blue Swedes used for, eggs or meat?
 
some duck breeds seemed to be hard to sex when still young. i have no idea of how i they in order to sex them.
i only know to sex barbary ducks, it become easy to tell a drake while their 8 weeks. drakes will have large foot and long back streched body,seing like their belly is to fall on the ground while running.

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I most definitely have 1 duck, she's small and quacks like crazy. The other 3 are still doing the duckling cheep but I'm thinking 2 for sure are males, the third is either a larger duck or a smaller drake. The female is significantly smaller then the for Sure drake, it's crazy! I may have to do some trades with people in the area.
 
Give them time, attention, and lots of treats (peas, dried mealworms, etc.) You want them to associate you with good things. Don't be surprised if they get worse soon (the gingerbread man stage) but then they get better.
For gender, you should be able to tell by the new feathers right above the tail, soon. Lace duck females get pencilled feathers (two toned) and males get solid, darker feathers. It works with Khakis anyway. I don't think you will be able to use that for the Swede cross but you could compare its rear-end shape with the others when you know what they are. I suspect you are right about the darker one being male. I had one female who quacked early and was small and one female who was as big as the male and didn't quack until a couple weeks later so size isn't necessarily an indicator.
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Oh cool! I'll take a better look at their tails in a bit, their feathers are really coming in well now :)
 

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