When do ducklings start quacking?

[JStark]

My three sisters here are two weeks old today, and yesterday afternoon (and this morning) it sounded a couple of times like one of 'em quack-liked. It wasn't a flat-out quack, but a far different noise than I've heard from any of them.

I just want to be sure it isn't some form of ducky whooping cough. They are all acting as normal as they ever have...

 

[aaronzclark]

about three weeks they start to really get a little quack but not like if they was big

 

[Brickman House]

Mine have never quacked as early as two weeks. For us, the voices have started changing around 4 weeks for the early ones, with most having their quacks around 6 weeks.

Doesn't mean you can't have an early "quacker", though!

 

[barnwife]

each duck is different!

I have had them quack at me as early as 3 weeks, and as late as 8-9 weeks ( a magpie duckling)

SO, really ,anywhere in between!

Someimes I find myself hoping for a quack a little longer than I should hoping its just a "late" girl than a boy lol

 

[RavenStorm]

Both of my older girls started to have "cracking" voices that would start out as a cheep but end in a semi-quack around 2-3 weeks. They weren't real quacks but darn, it was unbelievably adorable. I'm not sure really when they started to full-on quack though, sorry.

 

[patyrdz]

Wow! I just asked about this the other day! My runners are 2 weeks old, and I thought I had made them sick by letting the swim too young!! They are making some strange noises too! I am sooo happy that yours are doing this at a young age too!! My ducks are crazy big right now too! No one ever told me how old they were before they started quacking!!

 

[ct26]

My Bali Runner is 8weeks old and still no quack : (
Is this normal?

 

[SJUDD]

Mine are 6 weeks old, I have 3 Mallards and a Cayuga and one of the mallards and my cayuga are just starting to make quacking sounds in between cheaps. One of the mallards let out a loud actual quack on Monday but that was because she was getting "goosed" by one of the other ducks.

 

[HauiBali]

Our runner susie started some quack-like sounds when she was about three weeks old, but seemed kind of astounded by her own sound - much like teenager boys when they start to mutate

For a few days I did not heard her voice, and even her tweeting was moderate and shy. Then one day, at the morning foodrage she was quacking loud - made me proud: it's a girl!!!

 

[eeqlmc2]

When I bought my Pekin ducklings, the store said the were around 5 days old. That puts them at a day shy of 2 weeks. On is getting really good, already, and the wanna-be quack. (I am now questioning how old they really are.