The things to watch for are leg and bill color. Males will tend toward a greener color bill and brighter color legs. Curly tail feathers are a sure indicator. Younger ones tend to look the same color with the feathers. As they mature, the males will start to get a bit of a white collar and then go on to a full white color and green head. After mine molted the first time the males lost both the collar and the green. It was quite a few months before the colors came back, but have since kept the collar and green head. -- If you find what you did with that incubator hatch to get all hens I'm sure we all would love to know! Thanks for watching.

@@figspigsandfeathers8179 okay. I’m having a hard time distinguishing much difference between my three. My guess at the beginning was 2 drakes, 1 hen bc two were dark and one was slightly more brown in color and just a bit smaller. I appreciate your response. Makes no difference at this point I’m keeping them all. So I should just be patient and wait, but that’s soooo hard 😂

I like the Rouens. I have Pekins a couple of Runners and a Silver Welsh Harlequin. The Rouens are tasty but not as big as the Pekins.The Pekins bully the other ducks. I had to separate the Runners to protect them. Both are drakes so I had to move a couple of the Rouen ducks in with them so they would leave the chickens alone. Rouens are productive layers during the warmer months.

@@figspigsandfeathers8179 thank you for that valuable first hand experience. My three Pekin drakes bully the feathers right off of one another. I have them kept separate after losing one of my hens to their ways. Hard learning experience. I'm leaning towards either Rouen or Silver Appleyard. Guess time will tell! Thanks again.

I do have a larger in ground pond, but it is seasonal and hasn't sealed yet. I have a larger, deeper plastic pond and some of the accessories to put together a swirl filter. Longer term goal is to have the plastic pond inside a duck pen and open that into an orchard for the ducks, and for the dirty duck water to feed the trees in the orchard.

@@figspigsandfeathers8179 You are doing a great job. Keep up the good work. I am enjoying your videos. Hopefully going to browse through all of them

@@zuhairkhan900 Thank you.

@@figspigsandfeathers8179 You're welcome