Welsh harlequin or..?

[apricotvalleywf]

Just an FYI, that your broken emery pencilled pattern duck is a female.

 

[nelleyoukai]

Just an FYI, that your broken emery pencilled pattern duck is a female.

Really?? How can you tell?? Also thank you!

 

[nelleyoukai]

Update**

Seth has gotten those green/blue feathers on his wings!

And Holly has gotten all of her feathers now, although I'm still not completely certain that she is actually a 'she'. The sound that comes out of her is more of a soft 'woof woof' huffy sound which is making me think male. She's 2 months old now, so surely she would have a loud quack like the other girls?

Here's a video (hopefully it works) she's the one up the back with the constant huffing lol

 

[noddy05]

Hello, Just curious did you get those ducklings from Roleystone?

 

[nelleyoukai]

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Hello, Just curious did you get those ducklings from Roleystone?

I sure did aha.., did you get some too?

 

[noddy05]

I almost did i was lookin at them until i found mine.

 

[cymbaline]

Here's a video (hopefully it works) she's the one up the back with the constant huffing lol

I watched the video a few times. I do hear a girl somewhere but I don't think it's Holly? The noises that I think are coming from Holly do sound like the beginnings of a male voice, although I still hear a lot of peeping too. Can you do a video where you pick Holly up and carry her away a bit? That will usually cause them to vocalize quite loudly, lol.

 

[nelleyoukai]

I watched the video a few times. I do hear a girl somewhere but I don't think it's Holly? The noises that I think are coming from Holly do sound like the beginnings of a male voice, although I still hear a lot of peeping too. Can you do a video where you pick Holly up and carry her away a bit? That will usually cause them to vocalize quite loudly, lol. 

Haha I picked her up and carried her away and she was silent, she's only loud when I put her back in with the others which makes it difficult. The two white ones are the girls, and the raspy boy sound is the Seth, Holly is still the only one making babyish sounds, so that's the peeping you can hear. I've got another video where I've put her back with the group So they're all chatting away but because I'm so focussed on her you can sort of see what noise she's making lol.

 

[nelleyoukai]

 

[cymbaline]

I'd say almost definitely a boy. I've raised 7 ducks - 3 female and 4 male - and none of my girls ever sounded like that, and they were all quacking pretty often by 8 weeks.

Here's my Tony at around 3 months:

And my little Turkey-bird at about 6 weeks: