What are the genders of my French toulouse geese?

[Miss Cheep]

Hello! I have two French toulouse geese, that are four months old. They came sexed as male and female, but now I can’t tell the difference! I’ve attached pictures below. The first two pics are of the one I think is the girl, she is not as loud and vocal as the other goose, they are both close to the same size, she has a black spot on her beak, but she is more bossy to the ducks and chickens. When she calls, it’s so high pitched and loud.The third and fourth pics are of the one I think is a boy, he’s more friendly to me, he’s louder, and slightly bigger.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I look for a longer neck in the ganders and eventually larger in size. The males will start to honk at about 2 to 3 months. The females never honk in my experiences. Both of yours look like they have short necks, but it could just be the picture.

 

[Miss Cheep]

I look for a longer neck in the ganders and eventually larger in size. The males will start to honk at about 2 to 3 months. The females never honk in my experiences. Both of yours look like they have short necks, but it could just be the picture.

The one I think is a girl only honks when she’s hungry and when I see them first thing in the morning. Also we ordered them from metzer and they are supposed to be boy and girl.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

The one I think is a girl only honks when she’s hungry and when I see them first thing in the morning. Also we ordered them from metzer and they are supposed to be boy and girl.

My young males honk when they are excited. Otherwise they don't honk much currently. The females never honk. They make other noises, but never what sounds like a honk sound.

Males often will be more forward and will step in front of the females sometimes to block them.


Can you get a picture showing them side by side? The male should have a slightly longer neck and bigger bill. Otherwise sexing them can be a bit hard until they are fully mature. Most of my teenager are obvious, but a few I'm not quite sure yet.

 

[The goose girl]

My French Toulouse goose is much chattier than my gander, and her normal voice is very low pitched - almost bass-like. She grunt-honks happily while grazing, she greets the sight of treats with low grunt-honks, and I can usually get her to answer me when I talk to her. She only yell-honks when she wants my gander to catch up to her. She is also the one who decides when to get going, which she communicates with a gradually more and more insisting set of honk-honk-honks. If she gets really impatient they develop into honk-honk-honk-honk-honk-HONK!s.

My gander is way less talkative and mostly just utters little high pitched beeps once in a while - they sound like Beeker from The Muppet Show. When he screams, he can be quite a bit louder than the goose; depending on the reason for the screaming. He is able to make my windows rattle if he's in a mood.

 

[Miss Cheep]

My French Toulouse goose is much chattier than my gander, and her normal voice is very low pitched - almost bass-like. She grunt-honks happily while grazing, she greets the sight of treats with low grunt-honks, and I can usually get her to answer me when I talk to her. She only yell-honks when she wants my gander to catch up to her. She is also the one who decides when to get going, which she communicates with a gradually more and more insisting set of honk-honk-honks. If she gets really impatient they develop into honk-honk-honk-honk-honk-HONK!s.

My gander is way less talkative and mostly just utters little high pitched beeps once in a while - they sound like Beeker from The Muppet Show. When he screams, he can be quite a bit louder than the goose; depending on the reason for the screaming. He is able to make my windows rattle if he's in a mood.

Wow! My geese aren’t that loud, but yeah the one I think is a female does that too. Here are some pics from the side. The first picture is of the one I think is a girl, the second one is a pic of the one I think is a boy, and the third one is both of them.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Not the same breed but I love this video

 

[Miss Cheep]

Not the same breed but I love this video

Thanks for the video! Also, today the one we think is a boy tried mating one of my female Muscovies. She was fine, but the one I think is a boy does everything that the gander in the video does, except that his butt is lower thanthe female’s.

 

[Miss Lydia]

My Embden gander was hatched and raised by a Muscovy once he grew up she became his mate. And he mated with the other female muscovy I had believe me they all loved him. He even became papa goose to any ducklings that hatched here. I had Muscovy drakes and had to keep them separated because of fighting. When my gander was 5 yrs old he finally got a female goose to call his own.