Starting to quack or sick?

[BjaJra826]

Hello. While I am not new to ducklings, I recently found out I would be new to duck hens. We ordered female ducks and got one packing peanut male. They are now 3 weeks old today. That being said, all but one is making a weird sound I never experienced with my drake flock. The only one not makibg the sound is my packing peanut. The others are peeping, but at the beginning, end, or both there is deep sound. I think it is them just coming into their quacks, but wanted to pick your brains. They have clean bedding, fresh water/food multiple times a day, and get outdoortime with a kiddie pool to make sure they are cleaning their nares. No coughing, no snot or spit, no cankers, no lodged objects. Just me being paranoid because I was not expecting the sound difference to be so drastic!

 

[quackiemama]

Can you post a video so we can hear it?

 

[BjaJra826]

I am uploading one to youtube now. You can only hear it close to the end of the video at the beginning of her yelling at me. Of course, as soon as I put a camera on them they all stopped making the sound....

 

[quackiemama]

I am uploading one to youtube now. You can only hear it close to the end of the video at the beginning of her yelling at me. Of course, as soon as I put a camera on them they all stopped making the sound....

Mine do the same thing LOL

 

[BjaJra826]

It starts around 20 seconds in and is super brief.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I call it quaxing: Peep peep peep quax!
They get their mature voice and will turn into noisy teenagers very soon.

 

[BjaJra826]

Quaxing is about right! That makes me feel so much better. I currently have 8 mature ducks, but I got 4 straight run and 4 i hatched from e-bay eggs in my incubator hoping for at least some hens and I got all drakes. To fix that I ordered 1 crested pekin female and 3 khaki campbell females. I love the ducks so much and can't wait for bakers eggs and a supply of lower-cost meat birds.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Quaxing is about right! That makes me feel so much better. I currently have 8 mature ducks, but I got 4 straight run and 4 i hatched from e-bay eggs in my incubator hoping for at least some hens and I got all drakes. To fix that I ordered 1 crested pekin female and 3 khaki campbell females. I love the ducks so much and can't wait for bakers eggs and a supply of lower-cost meat birds.

Just don't name your food!

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

I think food names are good. Confit, curry, I even named one Roasted. However completely lack the stomach to go through with it. I will say my Pekin runner cross is looking pretty tasty, then he wobbles over on his little runner legs and melts my heart.

 

[PaulX]

Sounds like a girl!