Can you tell your geese apart?

[Leader Bee]

I'm not talking about sexing, but just being able to go away and come back later and still know which goose is which? I feel a bit ignorant saying "they all look the same to me" but I'm sure with familiarity it's quite easy?

 

[Isaac 0]

Yes, Its almost like how a mother tells her twins apart, If you are with them every day you notice the smallest differences between the two.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I can but just barely. I have 2 American Buff Geese, and no one else can tell them apart.

 

[Leader Bee]

I can just see myself calling my goose the ganders name and vice versa until she lays an egg

 

[Cindarelly]

Yes, but all of ours look different. When they were gosling's, I couldn't tell some apart.

 

[Goosebaby]

I can tell mine apart by sight, sound, and scent.

 

[Leader Bee]

I just spent the weekend rotorvating the garden ready for planting meadow grass; I'm absolutely knackered but I can't wait to have it ready for my goslings. Can't wait to start get to know each of them enough to tell them apart

 

[Silkie2005]

I can tell my four geese apart but then they look nothing like each other.

Bobby (grey and white) is now six years old, Belinda (grey) is now five years old. They act like a dating couple sometimes they are together all the time and sometimes they have a massive arguments and dont want to talk to each other.

Walter (white) and his partner Emma (grey and white) both of them were born in the mid 1970s and are in their 40s. They have been together all that time ❤. The pair of then are never apart, Emma is blind in one eye and almost blind in the other so she relies on Walter heavily and he still protects her, eventhough he is four decades old and he has very bad bow legs and arthritis so we wobbles around very slowly!

 

[Goosebaby]

@Silkie2005 Congrstulations on having such an ancient pair!


@Leader Bee It’s especially hard to tell them apart when they’re goslings if they’re the same breed, they grow so quickly they don’t even look the same always from day to day. The only way I could tell one year when I had three Toulouse babies at once was solely on their personalities, Strawberry was always the boldest, Darby was the most mature, and Friday was Friday. Now that they’re adults they look easily different, but when they were little it was a challenge.

 

[Leader Bee]

I'm sure it'll become much easier when it's their first egg laying season