Sexing 8 week old ducks

[mrosehogge]

Hello everyone I’m new here and to the chicken / duck life!! I got my ducks when they were about three days old they were sexed four or five times before I got them. The lady was sure they’re females, but the one is quacking and the other one isn’t yet I’m a little worried I might have a Drake I know around eight weeks is when they start to get their Drake feather, I’m not sure if anyone could help me with these pictures to determine if they’re absolutely females.

 

[Isadora]

Voice sexing is the most reliable way to determine sex. Some drakes don't present the curly feather reliably and there was a member on here who has a confirmed female with a "drake" feather.
Does the duck in question make any noise at all? You can upload a video of rhe noises to YouTube or another video hosting platform and paste the link here for us to see.

 

[HollowOfWisps]

I agree^ also some females are just quiet. I had one who rarely ever made peep.

 

[Quatie]

Same here. I had a female that is was close to 20 weeks of age before I heard a quack out of her. And she was too social to quack when you picked her up and walked away. But sometimes that works to get a quack out of them.

 

[mrosehogge]

Voice sexing is the most reliable way to determine sex. Some drakes don't present the curly feather reliably and there was a member on here who has a confirmed female with a "drake" feather.
Does the duck in question make any noise at all? You can upload a video of rhe noises to YouTube or another video hosting platform and paste the link here for us to see.

Yes, they’ve both been very noisy since I got them. The other one doesn’t quack, but she definitely or he makes a lot of noises. I know every duck is different and they might quack at a different time than others. I was just curious what everyone’s opinion was. I’ve heard the quacking thing was a myth, but then I also heard that the Drake feather is a definite, but I guess that is busted too lol. Thank you

 

[duckydidi62]

Voice sexing is the most reliable way to determine sex. Some drakes don't present the curly feather reliably and there was a member on here who has a confirmed female with a "drake" feather.
Does the duck in question make any noise at all? You can upload a video of rhe noises to YouTube or another video hosting platform and paste the link here for us to see.

I'm one of those people who have a female with curly tail feathers. She quacks though and is super small rouen/mallard (I think she was in wrong bin at rural king.) Also she hasn't layed any eggs either. But her quack is very prominent.