Helping sex geese

[marvun22]

If I posted pictures of my African Geese, would you be able to sex them. They are 3 months old.

 

[wlhtx]

If you can find someone to help you with this, let me know! I have 6 Africans that are two and a half months old, and we can guess about a couple but really have no real clue yet...

 

[LovedMyAlydar]

Well if my Toulouse geese are any indication, my male is big but much skinnier than his lady friend. She has "thunder thighs" and must weigh about 3 lbs more than him.

Below are a few pictures, not the best, but hopefully they are helpful.

Female is in the front, male in the back. Wish it was head on.




Head on of the male, notice the clearance between his legs.



Another shot of the female.

 

[Alaskan Dragonfly]

Well if my Toulouse geese are any indication, my male is big but much skinnier than his lady friend. She has "thunder thighs" and must weigh about 3 lbs more than him.

Below are a few pictures, not the best, but hopefully they are helpful.

Female is in the front, male in the back. Wish it was head on.




Head on of the male, notice the clearance between his legs.



Another shot of the female.

My Toulouse are the same... the gander is bigger, but the goose has a larger (and more even) keel. It was the voice and the body language, however, that told me the sexes when they were younger...

 

[wlhtx]

Males are higher pitched, right?

 

[Alaskan Dragonfly]

Males are higher pitched, right?

As a generalization, yes... My male has a high pitched, much louder honk, the female is more of a grunt, much lower pitched. It's a very obvious difference in my case, but you can't always count on it 100%.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I have also seen with my goose and gander they hold themselves differently too, he is more upright walks with his head in the air most of the time my goose just mosies along with normal body posture head at normal angle, and my gander which is Embden has a higher pitched honk than my goose which is Toulouse.

 

[wlhtx]

I really think I am going to need to band my 6. Just about the time I have one of them pegged as male/female, the group jumbles all up and I lose track of which one I think is which...

I do have one that was injured by a predator about a month ago that has scars on its neck - so that one is the only one I can definitively pick out of the crowd. I have recently determined that I THINK he is a male since he usually walks with his head up and more alert. (He's also just slightly taller than most of the others.) But, then again, as the survivor of an attack, maybe he is a she that just learned a painful lesson about self awareness...

 

[Miss Lydia]

I really think I am going to need to band my 6. Just about the time I have one of them pegged as male/female, the group jumbles all up and I lose track of which one I think is which...

I do have one that was injured by a predator about a month ago that has scars on its neck - so that one is the only one I can definitively pick out of the crowd. I have recently determined that I THINK he is a male since he usually walks with his head up and more alert. (He's also just slightly taller than most of the others.) But, then again, as the survivor of an attack, maybe he is a she that just learned a painful lesson about self awareness...

That would be nice if you had 1 gander and 5 females.

 

[marvun22]

I might have sexed my geese. I think I have one Gander and one Goose. I'll tell you every sign. First, these are methods I have read about online, so I'm not sure if they're reliable. 1: The possible male is obviously bigger. 2: The male has a thicker neck. 3: The female has a narrower and smaller head. 4: The male is more high pitched in his sounds. 5: The male has bitten me. The male has a knob developing under its head already. They might not all be reliable, but if all of them match up, I'm guessing I have 1 male and 1 female.