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alysbury duck?

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Thompson24

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alysbury duck?
« on: May 30, 2009, 17:00 »
hi guys

I have been given two alysbury ducks today, and wondered is there a simple way of trying to sex them? there fully feathered and about 2 years old?
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Kate and her Ducks

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Re: alysbury duck?
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2009, 17:14 »
You should be able to tell by their voice and their plummage. Boys have a curly sex feather by their tail, the girls don't. Girls have a proper quack, boys sound like they have a sore throat.

http://www.majesticwaterfowl.org/artquacks.htm
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Re: alysbury duck?
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2009, 09:15 »
erm, and girls lay eggs?
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Re: alysbury duck?
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2009, 10:25 »
lol i only got them about and hour before my post so still a bit early so see if any eggs lol.  I will have to listen to them today to see if i can hear them lol
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Re: alysbury duck?
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2009, 10:37 »
If they are 2 years old they will have their sex feathers if they are boys (although I did have a drake moult his for a while).
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