sexually confused pekin

[jamesk53]

I have an androgynous pekin. It has a darker bill like a male, but it doesn't have a curled tail feather and it quacks like a female. I've read several places that the bill color is one of the most reliable methods of determining sex so I'm confused. I have several pekins all raised together and the bill color and tails are consistent with the rest. Anyone else seen conflicted signs of sex in pekins?

 

[Apyl]

Do you have a pic? I go by the "quack" and wether they have the drake feather or not. I've never heard of sexing by the color of beak.

 

[jamesk53]

I'll upload some pics. You've never heard of the color of the bill as a sign of sex? of the 10 birds I raised, every other one with a darker color bill is a male and every one with a lighter is a female, this is the only duck that isn't consistent.

 

[Apyl]

I'll upload some pics. You've never heard of the color of the bill as a sign of sex? of the 10 birds I raised, every other one with a darker color bill is a male and every one with a lighter is a female, this is the only duck that isn't consistent.

No sorry I haven't.

 

[Oregon Blues]

That's interesting. My Pekin ducks and drakes all had exactly the same color of orange bill. The SOP calls for the same color of bill on ducks and drakes for Pekin.

I wonder about the validity of your theory about bill color on Pekin..

 

[MamaDuck1]

Not for pekins. Hmmm. Definitely welsh halequins, though!

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No sorry I haven't.