They are toulouse (spelling ?)

We found a page on sexing geese that said that when someone approaches a pair the male will usually go in front of the female hissing or whatever as he is trying to protect her. So you can tell them apart that way.

Nope, it was all interesting to me. Sounds like a good idea too letting them hatch their own.

I found out what has been wrong with my incubator. I haven't been able to hatch anything for a while now and couldn't figure it out. Then someone mentioned that it might be the thermostat but I knew it kept the temperature perfect. But that got me thinking about the thermometer so I bought a new one and checked it today and sure enough the one I had in it was about 4-6 degrees lower than it should be. No wonder everything kept dying! Anyway, I am so glad to find out what it was and maybe I will have some chicks this time, yeah!

I you want to figure out what sex you goosling (only for goolings) is to put it on it's back on the ground.  Flip down the tail and with a little vaseline on your finger and stick you finger in it's under side.  It may hard the first time.

 

Hey Yall

 

Thought I would throw in my 2 cents here on visual and audio sexing of Geese. Aside from the sex linked birds (Pilgrims and Embdens as goslings). This is what I've found:

 

Canada Geese: Like Momma Gozzard says, males have long limbs (neck, legs wings), Necks are the best way to tell. The gander will also have a loud, deep, long and sonorous hong. Females will have the short raspy, honk, or more of a cluck. Females also appear smaller and flatter by having her wings out to the sides of her a bit and tightening feathers against her body (giver her the flatter smaller appearance). The females do this on purpose as a form of submission  to make the male want to protect her, but to other females it is a dominance thing, the further out the wings are, the "tougher" they are. Males do the opposite, but with the same meaning (minus the protecting and submission part), he will hold his wings up higher on his back, and will often have his flanks slightly fluffed, deeper part of his breast, and tail flared slightly. He will also toss his wings when he is interacting with his mate.

 

Embdens, Toulouse, and most other Domestics derived from Greylag Geese: Males will have longer limbs again, and they will also have a longer more obnoxious "gooooooooog, goooog goog". They may also have a keel that hangs over to one side, and also, may have darker bills, eye lids and feet. Females will be more pale, call will be a shorter and more numerous "gooog gog gog" and they may have a double keel or one large one centered. Over all the females appear more stubby

 

Chinese and African: Males with longer limbs, stand much more upright and a strange walk and larger knob, call is a high pictched sound. Females with a normal stance and walk, smaller knob, and they honk.

 

Goslings: Females "peep" much more rapidly than males do in Canada geese, and is pretty much the same in domestics only it is harder to tell since both sexes have pretty rapid calls.

 

Jessica