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I thought I knew that I had a female! 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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I would have thought there were whole websites devoted to that

Sorry, I have no personal experience to go on here........

Nev

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Ducks/BRKDucks.html

Is one such website

Thank you!

I have taken a look at the website and I think in my infinite wisdom I have a girlie duck!

Heidi

One place I worked, we had what we thought was 6 females and one male (Indian Runners). However, we never had more than 5 eggs... One of the females turned out to be a male in drag!