Recently cultivation of poultry becomes very hot topic not only for villagers, but also for citizens who get ducks or geese on the seasonal dachas. It is caused not only desire to have tasty meat on a table, but also to know for sure that it is eco-friendly. The choice often stops on the domestic duck unpretentious in the food which is quickly gaining weight. Here only before beginners poultry breeders there is a difficult question how to understand who is who in a duck family and how to distinguish a drake from a duck.
Instruction
1. Definition on development you gortanivozmit a duckling in the right hand and probe his thorax. Take aside him the head, slightly raise a beak so that the neck was equal. Apply a thumb of the left hand for an emphasis to the last cervical vertebras. Press slightly a forefinger of the left hand on a front part of a breast of a duckling and define the triangle formed by clavicle bones, the front end of a chest bone and a shovel. Define whether the hillock about 4 mm in size in the diameter moving at the movement of a beak up-down is probed in the center of this triangle if yes, that is a drake. At a female individual this hillock is absent.
2. Definition on a golosuvozmita a bird in hands, to these you will provoke it to shout. Listen to a voice of a bird. The duck will begin to grunt stridently, the drake makes the loud hissing sounds with whistle impurity. Such vocal skills of a drake are explained by existence of meshkovidny expansion in a trachea fork.
3. Definition on sexual organamsamets of a duck has one anatomic feature not inherent in the majority of birds – a pseudo-penis which is capable to be twisted outside. This way, of course, demands certain skills. Carry out stretching of an external part of an anus by means of a thumb of the left hand and index and big fingers of the right hand. Place a thumb of the right hand on edge of a foul place and move up, at the same time the foul place will reveal and the genital of a drake in the form of the bent fold of 3 in size – 4 mm will be bared. It is possible just to delay a tail to a back, in most cases it will be enough for detection of sexual distinctions.
4. Definition on appearance. To visually try to distinguish a drake from a duck it is possible from 2-3 months. Look at a neck of a bird, at a female it more graceful, the shape of the head is brought closer to round, and at a male rather wide, forming the basis for the big oblong head. Pay attention to a tail, in difference from a duck at a drake on a tail the ringlet is formed of several feathers.
5. Definition on povedeniyuvo time of flight of two representatives of duck family and when they float on water - a duck usually is ahead, and a drake - behind her. But it is necessary to do the amendment for a season: during a seat on a nest (incubations of eggs) of steam of the flying or floating ducks it can be and just two drakes.