- Apr 26, 2014
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I have ten straight run runner ducks coming in a week. How long before I will be able to tell what sexes they are? and how can I tell. I am hoping for more girls but my luck they will be mostly boys....
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Give them head dunking water outside I use 1 gal buckets a pool would be good, they are way to messy to have anything other than the nipple waterers inside. I don't put any water at all inside my houses even my chicken coop my ducks will find it. lol as for sexing, pics would be good. and Welcome to BYC.I am going to bump this up, my runners are now 6 weeks and really big and feathered out. how long before they get the drake feathers? I don't hear quacks but more mumbles. I am so worried that they are all drakes....
also I am wondering if I need to have a pan of water for them all the time? I have the nipple waterers and they use them (they found a way to play with them too). I have a pan of water because I know they need to be able to scoop water too, but man do they make a mess in the chicken house. I am wondering if I can put a short pool outside since I am going to start letting them out in a week or so and then when I shut them up at night with the chickens they can just use the nipple waterers.
Sorry for so many questions, but I want to do it right.