POULTRY-KEEPING.
GEESE AND GANDERS, f A correspondent, wishes to know how he can distinguish ganders from geese. Unless a person has had experience this often proves a difficult matter. The size of the neck gives some indication, being thicker in the male than the female, whjle the former is usually larger in body and presents a more masculine appearance. The sex may also be distinguished by shutting up the geese in a shed and bringing 'a dog in. The geese will usually lift their heads up and go t,o the back of the shed, while the ganders will lower and stretch out their necks,, hissing all the time. In the case of Emden geese, the goslings when hatched are yellow. Some, however, are hatched with a giey tinge on their down. It is claimed that the grey ones are geese, and that the bright yellow ones invariably prove to be ganders. This theory is, however, not accepted by all. F. C. Brown, Chief Poultry Instructor, in the Journal of Agriculture.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4547, 6 April 1923, Page 2
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170POULTRY-KEEPING. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4547, 6 April 1923, Page 2
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