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4/18/07 at 3:36pm

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ok me and my son want a couple of ducks but cant find any everyone has geese for sale i cannot tell the diff in a baby goose and a baby duck any idea on ways to tell or any pics i could show my son? thanks

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4/20/07 at 9:17am

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The Beaks Of The Duck And Goose are rather differnet in shape. Geese, I guess have a slightly pointed end.
Kind Of hard to explain.
Here's A Few Pictures, hopefully when you get what i mean you'll be able to tell the differnece rather quickly.

3 geese, and gosling.

Mother Duck, And Ducklings.

Quack ^^

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4/20/07 at 10:34am

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Baby ducks quack, and not nearly as much as baby geese. Try saying whit, whit, whit if it responds it is a gosling. The ducklings will say nothing back.

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4/20/07 at 9:08pm

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The nares (nostrils) on a duckling are closer to their eyes and on a gosling farther away. Also, a gosling will want your attention worse than a puppy. and a duckling will like you when you are feeding them (mostly, anyway) LOL