Is it a modeled behavior?

[flockman]

My 2buff goslings are very different from one another. 1 stands tall like my gander and does exactly what my gander does. The other tends to keep the little goslings with her. They were hatched March 26. Is this assign that I may have a gander and a goose? I can't remember how old the pair wee last year when they started to differ in behavior. It did seem like I could tell by behavior very early, it did help that they were a sexed pair. These 2 are supposed to be girls.

Time will tell. What do you think?

 

[flockman]

The 1 that stands taller and acts like my gander has a higher pitched voice and is much more social to me. The other is definitely shorter in the legs and neck and has lobes already.

 

[flockman]

I thought that this was a little early. Different line so different genetics I guess.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I thought that this was a little early. Different line so different genetics I guess.

I cannot get over how they have grown, can you vent sex fm? that would give you your answer pretty quick.

 

[flockman]

I am just wondering about the possibility of one being a boy. I haven't vent sexed ducks or geese. I did with a few chicks a couple of years ago and ended up killing one. Time will tell what I have. I just had noticed just how different their behavior is from one another. Geese are different. I can watch chicks that are a day or two old and tell gender with about 95% accuracy. I did get it wrong once. It turned out to be the meanest hen I ever met. She acted like a rooster but laid eggs.

Last year my goslings Boris and Natasha had already been sexed as a pair. Their behavior early on started to show their gender. I just can't remember how early. Boris and Mary, the one that I think may be a boy, are the ones to come to me first when I approach. They seem to keep Martha, the one who dotes over the little goslings, on the other side of them. From the time I took them out of the box. Mary is always the one that came up to me. Boris did that as a gosling as well. Who knows. They were "sexed" as girls so we shall see.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I am just wondering about the possibility of one being a boy. I haven't vent sexed ducks or geese. I did with a few chicks a couple of years ago and ended up killing one. Time will tell what I have. I just had noticed just how different their behavior is from one another. Geese are different. I can watch chicks that are a day or two old and tell gender with about 95% accuracy. I did get it wrong once. It turned out to be the meanest hen I ever met. She acted like a rooster but laid eggs.

Last year my goslings Boris and Natasha had already been sexed as a pair. Their behavior early on started to show their gender. I just can't remember how early. Boris and Mary, the one that I think may be a boy, are the ones to come to me first when I approach. They seem to keep Martha, the one who dotes over the little goslings, on the other side of them. From the time I took them out of the box. Mary is always the one that came up to me. Boris did that as a gosling as well. Who knows. They were "sexed" as girls so we shall see.

Well even hatcheries make mistakes but I hope they didn't. I find my gander is always the one that seems to be in the for front of it all where my goose hangs back and acts like not much bothers her unless the ducks get into the pool, now that gets a rise out of her in a hurry. Erect posture is a dead give away too. here anyway.