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...

 

[Milkywayranchsc]

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

Lol, me too. Me: She is just a late bloomer, I know it's been six months, and she has a green head and curled tail feathers, but she is going to quack any day now!

 

[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

 

[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!!!

 

[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.

 

[Isaac 0]

My 2 week old white pekin has started making a different noise inbetween the usual peeps which sounds a bit like a honk! It’s deeper than a peep but obviously still quite high.

Is this going to develop into a quack? Or is this duckling a mistaken goose? Haha! The other duckling doesn’t make it. I wondered if the one honking was a girl and the other was a boy but then reading here now I’m not sure at all as they’re both still so young compared to all of yours.

Pekins are very fast growers so its a possibility.

 

[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!!

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[Virus]

My 7 week old mallard duckling's voice, besides getting a little raspy hasn't changed at all. He still peeps like baby! I'm not to worried about it though because from what I've read this isn't pointing to anything bad just that he's a late bloomer. It is sad when he tries to scare away the chickens and he just sounds like he's crying for mommy to save him.