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[ChickDancer]

Pretty sure ducks quack and drakes have more of a hoarse whisper thing going on.

Gotcha
The only method I ever knew of for determining male from female, aside from mallards, was the drake feather near the tail.

 

[carcar80]

No once they start "talking", it's super easy to hear. However sometimes visualizing who's making which sound can take a minute lol.

 

[GAMarans]

Gotcha
The only method I ever knew of for determining male from female, aside from mallards, was the drake feather near the tail.

The voice thing is a lot earlier than the butt curl.

 

[ChickDancer]

Well, based on that, I went outside and discovered I have at least two pekin females, and two males. The fifth I'm not sure about, and the two swedish are a complete mystery since they both still peep.

 

[ChickDancer]

And in other news... I have an internal pip on a Royal Palm turkey egg

 

[pr0wlunwoof]

Rear end

 

[Flowerbh]

I admit, I don't know ducks as well as chickens or even geese, but I thought all ducks quacked? Both male and female?

Runner duck females quake while the males just do this peeping thing. The females don't "quake" until they are about 1 month old so if you don't know how to vent sex ducks, which I don't, you have to wait for a month to see if they start quacking. Luckily the little runner duck I hatched 6 weeks ago started quacking so I have a girl!

 

[ChickDancer]

Rear end

What you're actually looking for would be on the chicken's back, right where the tail meets the body. If it's a roo, it will have thin almost stringy-looking feathers right there. They don't grow up into the air with the tail though. They fall down on either side of it. But they aren't the normal wide round-tip feathers you see on the rest of the body. They are very thin, with pointed tips.

 

[ChristyinGA]

Lookie what my honey is building me! Maiden voyage next Saturday when we dispatch 12 red rangers. Any words of wisdom for me?

 

[pr0wlunwoof]

Nice plucker. I did it the old fashioned way. I might get into meat birds in the fall.