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As I understand it, this is being harvested in the warmer months and the geese are given adequate time to regrow before cold temps arrive.
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I'm very interested in doing this and can't find much on the subject in my local library and nothing online either.
If you do, what breed seems best? How often can you pick their down and what time of year? Do geese get broody and produce offspring as easily as chickens, or has that been bred out of them, as well? How much down would a pair of geese produce in a year?
I keep looking at the hair sheep and passing them up. Sooner or later I'll have to break down and buy a pair. My only problem is that they don't look like the traditional sheep I've built up in my head. If I have sheep I want them to look all big and round.
Then again, I keep looking at the Jacobs Sheep and plotting. Who wouldn't want a sheep with four horns?
Four! They'd be my radioactive sheep.
Live plucking is done during molt. It is not ripped out of your goose, but a light pluck, same as what they do themselves for lining the nest or plucking the molting from themselves. You only collect what comes out easily. The geese themselves are quite fine with it, if used to being handled.Some cruel people raise the geese, and then (in the spring i think) hold the geese down and pull the down out of the goose. I think it is so cruel.