Sexing baby blue sweedish

[RJKnott]

So the rescue I get ducks from got a momma blue Swedish and her babies that someone dumped in a park. Momma has a home and they need homes for the babies

Would love to take one of the ducklings but we are up to 14 ducks now with 3 being males so would prefer to get females, but no one involved here has ever vent sexed a duckling and we don’t want to hurt it

This is mom and the babies. Some are light where some are distinctly dark. Would that matter at just 2-3 weeks old? Or the color just random and they could be either male or female regardless of color?

 

[Chickengirl2671]

I'm not sure how to sex them but color doesn't have anything to do with it, the the dark ones are black Swedish and the lighter are blue.

 

[Brooke_R]

So the rescue I get ducks from got a momma blue Swedish and her babies that someone dumped in a park. Momma has a home and they need homes for the babies

Would love to take one of the ducklings but we are up to 14 ducks now with 3 being males so would prefer to get females, but no one involved here has ever vent sexed a duckling and we don’t want to hurt it

This is mom and the babies. Some are light where some are distinctly dark. Would that matter at just 2-3 weeks old? Or the color just random and they could be either male or female regardless of color?
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Can’t really tell from a picture when they’re little. They may be too young right now to tell by their voices too. Once their voices start changing a little bit from the baby peeps, we could probably tell you from a video of each of them

 

[cheezenkwackers]

As already stated, you may have a few early quackers. Otherwise, I think you have a better chance of a female if you choose a small one with small feet.

 

[RJKnott]

As already stated, you may have a few early quackery. Otherwise, I think you have a better chance of a female if you chose a small one with small feet.

Cool may take a smaller one then. Watched videos on vent seeing but never done it and don’t want to risk hurting them

 

[ruthhope]

I think vent sexing should only be done in newly hatched duckings. The advice to get a small one with small feet sounds good to me!

 

[cheezenkwackers]

Cool may take a smaller one then. Watched videos on vent seeing but never done it and don’t want to risk hurting them

I did not notice the light brownish duckling before. Assuming that mom is really a blue Swedish then dad would have to have sex-linked brown. That baby would then be a sex-linked duckling and be female. I recently hatched some ducklings like that from my Silver Swedish female and half Khaki drake. This is my little girl:

I believe having blue and brown is called lavender.

 

[RJKnott]

I did not notice the light brownish duckling before. Assuming that mom is really a blue Swedish then dad would have to have sex-linked brown. That baby would then be a sex-linked duckling and be female. I recently hatched some ducklings like that from my Silver Swedish female and half Khaki drake. This is my little girl:
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I believe having blue and brown is called lavender.

Good to know! I reached out but all the ducklings were already taken oh well will wait for the next rescue