I have to wonder about a standerd for cotten patch, there is differences in geese from place to place. Around here they were not used as weeders, they were kept for their feathers. When a couple got married and set up house keeping someone would give them a pair of geese, these geese and their...
I don't have much luck setting goose eggs in the incabator but what I have found that works good and lets me set twice as many eggs is put ten or so under the goose and the same in the incabator then switch them every 4 or 5 days. I have good hatch rates useing chicken hens just be sure to wet...
Mine are from here in Pocahontas county West Virginia . I gathered up geese from about 5 flocks. I should have breed them serprate but I didn"t. I found out what they were in 1996 or 97 by then most all of them were gone. They use to be the only geese around here. They are the ones Bernard Gill...
Mine usually start second week of March. would be interested in trading eggs with someone I have both saddle back and solid. .The first few have poor fertility but after that they are good to go.