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Show DETERMINE SEX OF A GOOSE One Good Way Is to Notice Difference In Voices Mating Season Is Usually In Fall. In answer to a query as to method or rule for determining the sex of geese, an exchange makes the following reply: re-ply: There are no marks by which one can tell the gander from the goose, The only ways are to watch the ac. tlons of the birds and to notice the differences In their voices. The gander gan-der has what Is popularly called a tenor voice. It Is possible that all four of your birds may be geese. If so, Toulouse Goose. you will bo unfortunate in attempts to rulHo any goslings even If you do secure se-cure ganders. This In because the mating season Is In the fall, usually in September or October, and alno because be-cause geese very much dislike to have their quarters changed when once accustomed ac-customed to them. For this reason people peo-ple w ho wIhIi to secure birds for breeding breed-ing purpoF.es make their purchases In the full so the fowls will get accus-tomed accus-tomed to their new surroundings. Doubtless nests will be made and the eggs laid, but the eggs may not batch, if you are forced to buy a gander this spring, It will perhaps bo advisable for you to purchase some good eggs of the same breed as you keep, and use theHo rather than the eggs from your own flock, or at leant mark the eggs so that you can distinguish the purchased ones from those laid by your own birds. In this way you ihouid Hot be wholly disappointed. |
