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Identifying Male and Female Ducks (Tricks to tell difference)

Gold Shaw Farm | December 22, 2025



People often wonder how to tell the difference between a male duck (drake) and a female duck (hen). In this video, I’ll show you some of the tricks I use to identify a duck’s sex.

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  17. @ashleyschaal8167

    December 22, 2025 at 5:32 am

    I have 5 ducks, but only one of them making a quacking sound, but it goes after us to try to protect the others. So is it a male or female? The others make almost like a whining sound. I got them all as babies together

  19. @julietalw

    December 22, 2025 at 5:32 am

    So I have 4 curly tailed ducks and one straight. The white curly ducks, mount the black curly ducks- one more than the others. Quite violently 😮. And I’m only getting one egg a day so I guess it is only one female…

  20. @ImusNoxa

    December 22, 2025 at 5:32 am

    It's crazy seeing this pop up in my youtube recommendations and watching it because your voice has channged so much! You still sound like a city person here

  22. @alezajohnson1908

    December 22, 2025 at 5:32 am

    I have 4, 2 month old ducks. The sounds are different but I have been thinking of what you say is the drake sound as a quack. The female(duck)s sound is more like a honk to me. So based on sound I'm now thinking instead of 4 females it might be 4 drakes 🤦‍♀️. No curled tail feathers yet…..

  24. @ninalilly736

    December 22, 2025 at 5:32 am

    I thought I almost had it figured out. I have 2 ducks that have the curled feathers but quack more like a hen and one is the smallest of the 3. The one that quacks like a drake doesn't have the curled feather. So what would be the best way to distinguish the difference in that situation. The main reason I'm concerned, is that my littlest one has been attacking my largest one and alienating it. They are the ones that quack Ike the female but both have the curled feathers.

  31. @GrowwithHarris

    December 22, 2025 at 5:32 am

    I bought duck pair yesterday one duck have curl tail and one have straight but there voice is same to same deep voice so they both are male ? Does straight tail duck can be male . ?

  41. @dont4get2cultivate

    December 22, 2025 at 5:32 am

    I have 4 khakis that I can't determine. We have one Swedish male. The females were too loud for our area. They are 10-11 weeks and I still can't tell what we have. Of the four two have slightly darker heads. No curled tail feathers. Beaks are not yellow. 🤷‍♀️

  44. @Green.Country.Agroforestry

    December 22, 2025 at 5:32 am

    About 5 weeks ago, my neighbor and I bought some ducklings from a farmer's market – straight run, un sexed. I took 2 home, he took the other 4. We speculated about what sex they were, but with them being ducklings, who knows – the illustrations from poultry raising books (you know, the black and white messes?) did nothing to help, so I just waited for outward visual cues .. the neighbor, who is an idiot, said "drakes tail feathers will curl up, that's how you can tell" .. well, as the duckling fluff began to be replaced with feathers, I saw those tails come up, so naturally, I thought that I might have been unlucky with 2 drakes. SO .. I ordered 10 more, SEXED hens from Metzer, and they just arrived 2 days ago. Did I mention that my neighbor is an idiot? We now have a flock of one dozen hens.

  45. @maxdaley7939

    December 22, 2025 at 5:32 am

    Thanks for the video. We live in an apartment complex and there’s a flock of ducks that sort of come and go but mostly hang out by a big pond. Recently one of the males (a Peking I think? He’s big and white and doesn’t quack) seems to have been ostracized from the group. He’s always alone and when the other ducks see him they chase him away. We can’t help but feel bad for the poor guy knowing they’re flock animals. I’m wondering if there’s anything we can do to help him?

  46. @BeachMum

    December 22, 2025 at 5:32 am

    Informative! Thanks! But I couldn’t help but laugh when you picked up a male and female and were kinda moving them around an little bit, but their heads don’t move at all

  48. @ferncompton4906

    December 22, 2025 at 5:32 am

    Great video. Thank you. What kind of tarps do you have on your houses? Do you know the thickness? I’m trying to build an alternative, inexpensive roof for my pallet chicken coop. Thank you.

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