Many inexperienced poultry breeders, having decided to breed geese on the homestead economy, often ask a question: "How to distinguish a goose from a gander?" To certain age of a bird a little with what differ on appearance. But people who long enough are engaged in cultivation of these birds have several secrets.
Instruction
1. Define a sex of adult birds on external signs. As a rule, ganders are much larger than gooses, a manner to go and keep at them proud, males behave aggressively and often fight.
2. Gooses begin to lay eggs from 275-day age and rush up to 5-6 years. In order that eggs were impregnated, it is necessary to buy one gander on 3-4 gooses.
3. If gooses are still small, and it is not possible to distinguish them on appearance, start young growth in water. Geese will lift an alarm. Ganders will extend necks horizontally over water and to guffaw loudly, and gooses will make movements by the head up-down, similar to bows.
4. Listen to a loud laughter of birds. At ganders a voice rough, hoarse, abrupt, at gooses - more lingering and ringing.
5. But the most reliable way of sex determination of geese verification at ganders of a genital is considered, he settles down in a foul place. Define in such a way a sex at gooses of monthly age. When they grow up, it will be much more difficult to make it, survey will demand a certain skill.
6. Take the grown-up bird for legs the right hand and turn on a back. At the same time take a neck of a goose under the left hand. Then sit down, put a bird a back down on a knee of the left leg so that its tail part hanged down. Accurately index and thumbs of both hands open a cloacal opening. At males at such survey some kind of spiral curl - a genital will be noticeable, at the self-check there is no such curl.
7. Be attentive, pleated the lower part of a foul place there is a small nipple which by inexperience is easy to taking for a genital. But the nipple will be a little flattened and does not possess accurately created chlenikopodobny divisions, unlike a genital.
8. If this way of survey of a foul place causes in you difficulties, try to arrive in a different way. Clamp a goose the head between legs down, fingers accurately press around a foul place and examine it.