How Can You Tell Male And Female Pekin Ducks Apart?

A drake feather is the last resort and simplest of forms BUT some times that feather can be pulled out by another duck or occasionally falls out especially during molt. The best way to decipher pekin males from females is the bill color. A femal will have a very light pale peach color bill and a male will have a bright orange colored bill.

I agree with Dieselgrl. Though even as chicks you can tell males and females apart by bill color a females is a more fleshy dull peach color and a males will be bright orange. The curly tail feather comes once they are fully matured at 15-20 weeks and the quacks come within about 8-10 weeks

Female Pekins will have a lighter raspier quack and the males have a deep quack.Also adult males have a curl at the end of tail.Bill color can also be a factor with hens having a lighter color and males a deeper orange.