So I learned how to sex my muscovy's while raising them. i had little experience with vent sexing and the numbers became different every time. I read about it being hard to sex them but I found some easy ways to to it. Sadly you cant really sex them from the begining unless your good at vent sexing, but I will go through all the stages of life.
4 weeks old:
So at four weeks I think the most apparent signs move in. 1 sign will be the feet, a male ducks feet will be bigger than the females, and the male ducks will be much bigger, growing faster that the females. You might also notice the males will be lazier than the females.
6 weeks old:
at six weeks the carnucles might start to form, male carnucles will be first to start growing and will be darker red that the females. At this point you may be able to really start noticing difference in size. I have read that female muscovies tend to be more vocal than males but I never noticed this.
10 weeks old:
At this point you may be able to notice the different tail sizes. the female tail may be more V shaped while the males could be more U shaped. however a female can fan her tail out when broody or distressed.
12 weeks old:
At this point all the information above is way more obvious.
I hope this helped any new owners, sorry I dont have any pictures and moderates correct me if anyone of this could be false. I just went off of what I saw.
4 weeks old:
So at four weeks I think the most apparent signs move in. 1 sign will be the feet, a male ducks feet will be bigger than the females, and the male ducks will be much bigger, growing faster that the females. You might also notice the males will be lazier than the females.
6 weeks old:
at six weeks the carnucles might start to form, male carnucles will be first to start growing and will be darker red that the females. At this point you may be able to really start noticing difference in size. I have read that female muscovies tend to be more vocal than males but I never noticed this.
10 weeks old:
At this point you may be able to notice the different tail sizes. the female tail may be more V shaped while the males could be more U shaped. however a female can fan her tail out when broody or distressed.
12 weeks old:
At this point all the information above is way more obvious.
I hope this helped any new owners, sorry I dont have any pictures and moderates correct me if anyone of this could be false. I just went off of what I saw.
