Please help with Khaki Campbells and Rouen

[kimbot73]

your rouen is a boy, and so is one of the khaki. see the one with the lighter colors above the tail? she’s female

Thank you for responding. How can you tell the rouen is a boy?

 

[Duck mommy 2019]

Thank you for responding. How can you tell the rouen is a boy?

how green his head is and his beak color (not for sure signs but it’s true like 99% of the time when you have both of those things)

 

[kimbot73]

how green his head is and his beak color (not for sure signs but it’s true like 99% of the time when you have both of those things)

Beak is very gray and starting to turn yellow near nose. Green is just in the sun at the very top, very lightly.

 

[Duck mommy 2019]

Beak is very gray and starting to turn yellow near nose. Green is just in the sun at the very top, very lightly.

hmm then maybe girl... one of my girls actually had a green beak too

 

[HomesteaderWife]

This may not help any but here is personal experiences and a photo - these are our Khaki Campbells as youngsters - the one on the left grew into our male and the one on the right was the female. He was always more cautious as a duckling and she was more sociable. His bill took on a very light gray with slight yellow tints. As they grew, the voices distinguished them before color did (voice sexing them is fairly easy, the tones are much different)- she it very chatty and always quacking these days, and he is still pretty quiet unless something happens or they hear you coming.

Here is an adult photo of those same ducks - the female has her head down, so her bill is a bit darker looking than it actually is. I found another good indicator besides head darkening/voicing was that my male got the curly little rump feather as he developed his adult markings.

Hope this helps some and if nothing else, just wait and let them grow and it will be a fun surprising guessing! Enjoy those cute ducks!

 

[cheezenkwackers]

Check out this post here . The post was updated with the actual genders at the end (the original poster was right, 5 boys, 1 girl). I will still stick with checking the feathers above the tail. If you look at this picture from that post, you can see the girl has the lighter, two-toned feathers and bill color would be hard to use.

 

[kimbot73]

Thanks everyone! These are dead on. My rouen is starting to get green all over his face and the khakis are starting to flirt with each other. We have ordered some more females that should be here any day to help with the balance.

 

[Duck mommy 2019]

Check out this post here . The post was updated with the actual genders at the end (the original poster was right, 5 boys, 1 girl). I will still stick with checking the feathers above the tail. If you look at this picture from that post, you can see the girl has the lighter, two-toned feathers and bill color would be hard to use.View attachment 2174691

so do these look like girls or boys?
picture one is a rouen and two is a khaki

 

[kimbot73]

so do these look like girls or boys?
picture one is a rouen and two is a khaki

How old are they? It's probably too soon to tell until they are at least 6-7 weeks old.

 

[Duck mommy 2019]

How old are they? It's probably too soon to tell until they are at least 6-7 weeks old.

they turn 5 weeks tomorrow