though it would appear there is a chance she might be a he!I have ordered Katie Thears book - so maybe it will be in there but I thought I would ask you guys for opinions/ideas.
I spoke to a lady who keeps ducks in effort to try and track down a mate for "Daisy".
She said the feathers on a Drake will change colour so that he looks like a Drake when he is roughly 20 weeks old. So all mallards will look like females until roughly september time??
She did describe how to sex a duck, which I tried to do (failing misearbly!) I looked for the vent but failed to find it!
Also her advice was that female ducks will quack before the males do as they make a funny rasping sound.
The beak on a male is olive green colour - the ducks down the duck pond have verified this for me!
Apparently the colour of the eyes have a bearing on the sex too???
My Daisy has a brown beak, brown eyes and brown feathers THOUGH the feathers on "her" head are tinged (in sunlight) green!
Anyone got any ideas????
Heidi
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