sandpat

Ask them nicely???

jpthequilter

LOL!!! How do you know their gender - ask them nicely?
They won't tell you....
White ones, the guy has a curl in his tail!

Sandpat .....you are the sly one!

Jeannie

sandpat

Hhehehhheheh....well, you could wait to see which one lays an egg!

(and I heard the curl is there with all breeds, just sometimes it is missing or hard to see) :wink:

Mousie

lol...which one lays an egg.
DD and I were having a discussion about cats. Seems we both live in areas where ppl, um, think adoption is sure.
hmm, wonder how they know?
anyway, I can't tell gender of kitties. Just don't even think to look, mostly.
DD has six in-house kitties and one outside that she told me this morning is expecting.
We discussed how she knew and we talked about my last adoptee, Harley.
DD: "well, if he was a girl, you would know by now."
Me: "I would? how?"
DD: "You'd have kittens."
ohhh :lol:

Foxflower

:lol: You girls are funny. As for telling gender, egg laying aside, as far as I know all duck breeds do get the drake curl, but also, drakes have a much softer, almost raspy, quack....that will be the first noticeable gender characteristic to develop--like waiting to see if a chicken will crow!

kysmommy2

i was told my two are same sex-and i havent seen any eggs, so maybe they are both males. Ill look for a curl, although I dongt know what it woudl look like, lol. maybe ill do a google image search :)

Foxflower

It's hard to tell from your picture. The curl is really obvious -- at least when they're about a year old. At the top of they're tails, one of the top feathers curls back toward their heads. One of my drakes has lost his curl lately...don't know where it went. The voice difference is still the same. Here's a link to a conversation about telling gender differences, but no pictures....I couldn't find a picture of a drake curl in a quick search. Maybe I can get one of the other drake I have.
http://www.backyardchickens.com/foru....php?id=351199

jpthequilter

How old are they? They wait until they are older than chickens are when they begin to lay and always hide their eggs, which are larger than chicken eggs and are greeish in color. They hide them well in big clusters. They will not hatch of course, and if you have any critters like skunks or foxes or racoons, or even dogs, they will find and eat them.
...or they will spoil, break and give out a rotten egg smell!
If you smell that, follow your nose, clean out the nest, and check for fresh eggs. My dad loved fresh ones for fried breakfast eggs.
If the males grow a curl, you will notice!
The males and females are different colors in brownish ducks, mostly.JP

Foxflower

They eggs can be a cream color too -- depends on the breed of duck....

sandpat

Oh...duck eggs make the best cakes!!!! They are a bit large for me, especially fried..but they are really great to bake with!