Both male and female look alike in most breeds. With Herring Gulls, our most common, the bills are very slightly different shaped, but you need to see them side-by-side to compare. Females also tend to be smaller in size or more timid at the start of a friendship than the males. Geese only have a 3 color wheel chart. Not very nice sounding, but it is the best way to tell. Although geese live on aquatic surroundings, they prefer a green leafy veggie diet. In a female, the notch would point downward in a 10-degree position. The Male geese are called ‘ganders’ and a baby goose is called ‘goslings’. In a male, it would be more in a 30-degree position. We at Metzer normally ship the birds straight run which means you get them as they hatch - which in larger numbers is about 50% males and 50% females. Most people will wait for an egg to find out for sure. There are many species of gulls but in most, it is much more difficult to tell the difference between male and female, without sexting. However, if you have a male and a female in front of you to make side-by-side comparisons, you can discover differences in their voices that will enable you to tell males and females apart going forward. But we also can sex all of our ducklings and all of our goslings. The sagittal sign in a male fetus differs from a female in that the position of the caudal notch would be upward facing. Good luck identifying a Toulouse goose's gender because males and females tend to look and act alike! One way to sex a goose is to vent sex it. Vent sexing is the only way to tell for sure if a goose is male or female. The females tend to have darker shades of brown in their hoods, while the males are lighter coloured. Even with large geese… We do not sex our chicks, guineas, or pheasants. Unless you are experienced and knowledgeable in geese and their sexes, it is extremely hard to tell the difference. If it is somewhere in between, it may be harder to … It is also said that geese downs have less odor compared to that of the duck down. When a new goose is introduced to an existing gaggle, a newly introduced female will commonly run away from the approach of the existing alpha gander (although timid ganders may also run away). Some say that you can tell by the thickness of their legs (provided there are examples of both sexes in the mix), but I tried that with some ducks once and ended up with all 4 males The hoods of juvenile magpies tend to be fuzzier and brown-beige almost all over that slowly change to clearer colours as they reach adulthood. Not only has that, geese also had more webbings on the feet compared to ducks.