Squeaking duck?

[Amrobblee]

My two Swedish ducks are just a little over 9 weeks now and up until yesterday they both made this raspy whisper type sound. Yesterday morning I came outside and one of them is now making noises that sound comparable to a squeaky toy? It’s now a high pitch tone with no raspiness to it but only one has changed and the other still has a raspy whisper. Is this a cause for concern? I can’t tell if he/she is just growing and getting their “quack” or if maybe it’s the start to a respiratory infection of some sort... I’m not sure how to post videos but I have the “before and after” videos of the sound difference

 

[Amrobblee]

Upload your video to a video platform like Youtube or Vimeo, and copy/paste the link here.

This is the “before”

And “after” that I took today

 

[Miss Lydia]

Sounds like a horn on a Kids bike. Any thing making you think something is off but the new noise?

 

[Miss Lydia]

At 9 weeks they are fully feathered. You don’t secure them inside a coop for their safety at night? Try not letting them sleep in their pool and see if the squeak gets better. Almost sounds like he has something stuck but if he is eating an drinking normally probably not.

 

[Amrobblee]

One of my ducks recently switched from a raspy sound to a squeak just like this. Any update on your duck and what it was?

It just ended up going away after a couple days and then a few days later he ended up getting a full male quack instead of his raspy little chirps.

 

[Duckmom27]

Well, today my blue swedish got his big boy voice! Guess the squeak was an in-between stage. My Cayuga drake never did the squeaking but he got his full-grown voice yesterday. So interesting to watch them develop

 

[Amrobblee]

Well, today my blue swedish got his big boy voice! Guess the squeak was an in-between stage. My Cayuga drake never did the squeaking but he got his full-grown voice yesterday. So interesting to watch them develop

Maybe it’s a Swedish duck thing! Mine is a Swedish as well! Thanks for the update are you a first time duck mom too?

 

[Amrobblee]

Yep, first time! Loving it even more than I expected, and I've been looking forward to getting ducks for years

Same! They are so messy but so much fun lol I have 4 now and I’m trying to refrain from getting more but it’s so hard!

 

[Duckmom27]

I have 4 too. Straight run and ended up with 2 males and 2 females. I keep going back and forth on adding several more females or separating my flock next year for mating season. They are totally addicting and I'd love to get more of them, just not sure if it's the right thing on my current property since I'm in a suburb. Tripling the amount of quacking might not be appreciated by my neighbors someday I'll get a few acres in the country and then I'm definitely going to have a large flock

 

[Duckmom27]

I'm in NC. I installed the roof of their coop on hinges so I can open it, so I keep it open during the day in nice weather to let the sun get in and keep the grass alive. So at the moment inside their coop is grass still, but I expect at some point they'll have turned it all into mud and then I suppose I'll start using pine shavings.

I don't know for sure that they'll be fine through the winter, like, you'll want to keep an eye on it of course and monitor for any problems/separate them if needed, but they'll be reaching adulthood toward the end of the usual mating season, so hopefully/theoretically the hormones won't start raging until next year's mating season