muscovy sexing?

[dancingflame]

I just bought some muscovy ducks today and the seller didn’t tell me if he knew if they were male or female or their ages, so I tried looking it up and am getting some inconclusive results. can someone help me out? the first two pictures are separate ducks and the last one is them together

 

[Miss Lydia]

Take a look at the tail length on each one. I am going to guess the first picture is female the second is drake. Both are adorable. Drakes tails are longer, females are short and fan out.
@Canadian Wind want to take a guess?

 

[Canadian Wind]

Take a look at the tail length on each one. I am going to guess the first picture is female the second is drake. Both are adorable. Drakes tails are longer, females are short and fan out.
@Canadian Wind want to take a guess?

Hmmm, hard to tell on individual pictures, but if they are the same age, the the one on the left is female and on the right is male, imo.

As I've told others though, you can't take these signs as 100% proof. There are always some that will imitate the other gender up until close to adulthood.

Lovely babies, btw!

 

[Bkydchickens]

I was asked to adopt a muscovy duckling that was found when it was very young. A hawk dropped it and the people didn't have a place for it & didn't want to just release it. I have no idea how old it is, but is it too early to tell if it's a male or female? I was hoping to find out before I build a home for it depending on location. I would like to get it out of my tortoise habitat cause it eats their food. Thanks

 

[TDK]

I was asked to adopt a muscovy duckling that was found when it was very young. A hawk dropped it and the people didn't have a place for it & didn't want to just release it. I have no idea how old it is, but is it too early to tell if it's a male or female? I was hoping to find out before I build a home for it depending on location. I would like to get it out of my tortoise habitat cause it eats their food. Thanks

Looks like a male to me but I could be wrong.

 

[RoosterHuggerLiz]

I was asked to adopt a muscovy duckling that was found when it was very young. A hawk dropped it and the people didn't have a place for it & didn't want to just release it. I have no idea how old it is, but is it too early to tell if it's a male or female? I was hoping to find out before I build a home for it depending on location. I would like to get it out of my tortoise habitat cause it eats their food. Thanks

Male

 

[Miss Lydia]

I've had Muscovy since 2004 and just my opinion I think too young to say yet.
Sure is a cutie.
Where are you going to put it out of your turtle habitat?

@Canadian Wind also has Muscovy hopefully may be able to tell.

 

[Bkydchickens]

I've had Muscovy since 2004 and just my opinion I think too young to say yet.
Sure is a cutie.
Where are you going to put it out of your turtle habitat?

@Canadian Wind also has Muscovy hopefully may be able to tell.

I moved her to a side pen to our peafowl flight cage, they haven't used it & prefer another one. But now it's getting cooler, I have planned initially a 20x15 partial covered area with a duck house & repurposing a plastic livestock trough that is too small for them. Covered of course because we have a large variety of predators. I'm hoping to allow our chickens limited access to this area since I can't free range them anymore. After I get grape vines cleared off the arbor I plan to add hardware cloth so they can have access to the arbor 6x30. They really like the grapes!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Do you have more ducks than this duckling? They really thrive so much more if they have other ducks to socialize with.