Do you importantly go in the yard in the yard? And how many of them are the drakes and how to find out?
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It is quite difficult to determine the floor of the bird, especially at first glance, because, unlike animals, their sexual characteristics are invisible. And if this is not an adult, but a chick, the task becomes even more difficult. Nevertheless, let's try to figure out this “feathered problem” and separate the drake from the duck.
External differences of adults of the Selezny and Ducks
The most visual external sign is plumage. Females are more inconspicuous, their feathers are most often gray, but the selements are real dandies: their plumage is bright, color. In addition, they are naturally endowed with a beautiful crest, located on the neck and “beard”. The ducks were not lucky here - they are deprived of such "jewelry."
- The tails also differ: with several rounded feathers - in males, with all straight - in females.
- Seleznes are larger and massive, their neck and heads are larger, and the body is wider than that of ducks. If you carefully look at their beaks and the whole head, you can notice that the males have a wider forehead, coming from a beak in the shape of a triangle, females have this expansion in the form of a trapezoid.
- Of course, such differences are not always visible clearly, because both females can be large, and males are small - it all depends on the conditions in which they are contained, on the diet, etc.
- Therefore, it is worth noting another nuance associated with the "speech" of birds. A fairly distinct grunt of ducks does not look like hissing with a whistle, which is published by a spleen that has an extension in the larynx, similar to a bag.
By the way, carefully listening to the sounds made, it is really possible to determine the gender of the bird by quantity upon reaching its monthly age.
The difference in habits of males and females
Like real "gentlemen", the selescents let their ladies go forward. So they behave in the water, and during movement on the ground, and during the flight. So almost always females open the procession, males clip.
An exception is the time when females sit on eggs. Then only males remain in the pack, and they take turns becoming leading and scholars. The differences in the behavior of ducklings are interesting, which have not yet reached 2-3 months, when they can be distinguished by external signs.
- Firstly, it was found that they react differently to ultrasound. Therefore, you can experimentally find suitable frequencies, to which only males or only females will respond. So they can be classified: collect the same -sex birds near the radiation of the sound of the sound and apply marks, which will further help to understand that only boys (or girls) are in front of you.
- Another way is to raise the baby by the paws. In a position upside down, males will try to evaluate the situation and twist their heads, females, as a rule, will remain motionless.
You can also determine the "boys" logically. It is known that the most active, massive and “loud” duckling is in the future the “leader leader”. Therefore, the ducklings offended by him are necessarily males, because he has nothing to share with the girls, and the guys are future competitors, whom he now puts in place and builds the hierarchy.
Anatomical differences of the Selezny and Ducks
If you do not take into account the principles of the correct ratio of males and females, the formation of same -sex couples is not excluded in the flock. Therefore, one cannot say that by the behavior of birds it is possible to determine their floor with confidence, because in such a homosexual pair, the duck can behave like a real spleen and vice versa.
Therefore, the most accurate method of determining the floor will be an anatomical examination of the chick. If you slightly turn out the anus of the duckling from the abdomen, then you can see a tiny, in the size of literally a couple of millimeters, sprouts similar to a penis.
Thus, we can say with confidence that this is a male. If such a process is not observed, in front of you is a female. This method, called Japanese, allows you to highly determine the floor of the bird in the first days of its life.
Why do you need to distinguish males from females?
A logical question. After all, it would seem, is it all the same, the duck or spleen will eventually go to the oven, stuffed with apples or oranges? Not at all. Any business, including the content of the livestock of a bird, must be carried out rationally - only then success is possible.
In this case, the quantitative purchase and distribution of feed depends on the strict accounting of males and females in your number. In addition, you can plan the number of future clutches in advance and navigate already in the amount of costs for the near future.
Depending on whether you buy ducklings for meat or further breeding, you can also determine the number of goals you need yourself, given that the males are more resilient, and therefore the case among them below. In addition, seelnis is larger and an average of two times heavier ducks, i.e. There is more meat in them.
But females are more attached to the place and do not seek to fly away. If we are talking about breeding, experts recommend selecting proportions on average for further propagation of the number of livestock 1:4, that is, count four females for one male. But how to do this without orientation in the gender of birds?
Perhaps the beginning of the poultry farmer all of the above methods of determining the floor will seem difficult, but everything comes with experience. Already in the second or third generation of your bird you will learn to distinguish a male from a female.
Video: The difference between the duck and the Seleznya by sound
