My ancona/blue swedish ducks

[Annaafranqueza]

Mom is ancona dad is blue swedish.
Started getting green coloring on heads and blue on wings! 6 going on 7 weeks!

 

[PirateGirl]

You should definitely be able to voice sex them by now! My little swedish girl is SO LOUD right now and she is about the same age, maybe a bit younger. You've got some cuties for sure, I love the speckled beaks!

 

[bluemerle]

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Adorable

 

[Miss Lydia]

Precious!

 

[Annaafranqueza]

You should definitely be able to voice sex them by now! My little swedish girl is SO LOUD right now and she is about the same age, maybe a bit younger. You've got some cuties for sure, I love the speckled beaks!

I think its too early to tell. I’ve seen mixed results on here of people voice sexing this early. Sounds like all girls but you never know until a drake feather pops up!

 

[PirateGirl]

I think its too early to tell. I’ve seen mixed results on here of people voice sexing this early. Sounds like all girls but you never know until a drake feather pops up!

Maybe... with all the ducklings I've had, by the time they were fully feathered, it was obvious who was a boy and who was a girl. At that point, those that still sound like baby peeps are most likely young drakes.

 

[PirateGirl]

I now demand cute duckling videos so we can take a stab at voice sexing

 

[ketojenn]

Mine are 6 weeks and it's pretty obvious by voice. I have a bunch of girls and they are LOUD first thing when they see me. lol Boys are so quiet.

 

[BeeDavisFarmer]

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Mom is ancona dad is blue swedish.
Started getting green coloring on heads and blue on wings! 6 going on 7 weeks!

Hello! Wondering if anyone on here can help me answer a question. We have 1 Ancona Drake with 3 Ancona hens. We have one Swedish Blue hen that is older and we thought we could tell her eggs apart (last year size difference was obvious, but this year seems to be the same size unfortunately). We want to hatch Ancona babies only and hatched 8. We have 3 that we are certain are the Swedish Blue due to their markings matching hers identically... NY question is- we have 5 babies that look mostly like Ancona... as they get older would there be an obvious sign if they in fact had her as their mother? We don't want to accidentally breed the swedish Blue into our flock so we intended on not keeping any of these babies due to the uncertainty. But seeing this thread makes me hopeful there may be signs as they age and change color?