The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Maesgwyn on March 12, 2012, 08:49:46 am
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My geese are fighting a lot and this is because I can not tell a male from a female, by the time I get to them they have broken off the fight and mixed with the flock again, i dont want to kill the wrong ones as they are laying well at the moment, just want to reduce the fighting and the noise for the neighbours, they are Toulous, I also bought two embden geese and both were supposidly females but one isnt!
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Hi
I had the very same nightmare last year with my young geese. Mine are now coming up a year old and it is now quite easy to tell which are the geese vs ganders.
I have Embdens and I have two girls to one gander.
The geese are MUCH quieter than the gander, they busy themselves eating grass and mooching around. But the gander is very vocal, lots of screeching, extending his neck and trying to look fierce and terrortorial.
He is also quite alot taller and longer necked than the girls and his head is bigger.
I tried vent sexing too, which is quite easy but abit messy. Tip the goose upside down, head behind you as you straddle it and gently prise the vent open, if it is a gander then it will have a little spike/boy part sticking out and obviousley the girls won't.
Hope this helps. You will definately have to cull/sell your extra ganders as they will argue all the time.
xx