American(Buff, Blue, Lavander,etc.)goose thread! Post pics!

[zekii]

We have 6 Lavender buff eggs in the hatcher about to hatch, depending on what hatches we are probably going to sell most of these, located in NH
if anyone is interested contact us. Our blue & lavender buffs are from Holdereads. Have blue eggs in the incubator, plus Hen is sitting on some, so will
have some blues hopefully shortly.

 

[Penny Hen]

There like 25 fertile eggs that they re laying on and they are broody I can NOT keep that many ( and this is a rare breed so I can't sell them to somebody whose gonna kill them )

Have you thought of running a classified for hatching eggs at The Livestock Conservancy site (http://www.livestockconservancy.org/) You may have to be a member I am not sure. Or if a non-member you may have to pay to list. I used to be a member about 10 years ago. Enjoyed it a great deal. Will renew when my finances improve.

I would like to get some from you but I am not set up at the moment to hatch them. I have some bugs to work out of my homemade incubator. As well as get my DH on board with the idea of goslings. I have two yearling Buff ganders that I traded a sheep for that I want girls for eventually.

I understand not wanting to just consign them to killing but do not forget that for the betterment of the breed some culling must take place.

 

[Kelsykin]

I'm in northeastern Wisconsin. Would love some if I was closer ir my DH got a load near you.

 

[buff goose guy]

There like 25 fertile eggs that they re laying on and they are broody I can NOT keep that many ( and this is a rare breed so I can't sell them to somebody whose gonna kill them )

Have you thought of running a classified for hatching eggs at The Livestock Conservancy site (http://www.livestockconservancy.org/) You may have to be a member I am not sure. Or if a non-member you may have to pay to list. I used to be a member about 10 years ago. Enjoyed it a great deal. Will renew when my finances improve.

I would like to get some from you but I am not set up at the moment to hatch them. I have some bugs to work out of my homemade incubator. As well as get my DH on board with the idea of goslings. I have two yearling Buff ganders that I traded a sheep for that I want girls for eventually.

I understand not wanting to just consign them to killing but do not forget that for the betterment of the breed some culling must take place.

We'll mine are winning show geese and they are rare so you shouldn't kill them

 

[Penny Hen]

We'll mine are winning show geese and they are rare so you shouldn't kill them

Then you should definitely place an add with The Livestock Conservancy because most of your contacts through them will be looking for the conservancy angle and not the raise for butcher angle.

By the way what is the SOP for Buff Geese anyway. I mean I haven't had my guys long enough to recognize the finer points. They look close enough to photos of prize geese that I am fairly confident that they don't have major flaws but I really don't know how to judge them just yet.

 

[buff goose guy]

A broad cheats a deep orange bill and deep orange feet they should look like an orange crayon

They should have alittle indent in the middle of there chest and if your doing heavy weight shows they're kneel should touch the ground , but they should still be able to walk fairly we'll

They need to have long necks

There under coverage should be slightly lighter than there too feathers

There watchers should spread out evenly with one another

Of course a clean moth and beach

There feathers should be silky and the shades of buff can range from a dark creamy color to just a bit lighter than a Toulouse .

The beack should even out with the head nicely

The head can look anyway just not deformities

And some contest cheek how they sound girls should be shrill deep and loud

Boys should sound similar to a short air horn but still be deep .


Underbelly should be very clean

all one solid shade of buff . Other than the underbelly


( there might be some more or less of these it depends on where you live if you do local or national contests )

 

[buff goose guy]

We'll mine are winning show geese and they are rare so you shouldn't kill them

  Then you should definitely place an add with The Livestock Conservancy because most of your contacts through them will be looking for the conservancy angle and not the raise for butcher angle.

By the way what is the SOP for Buff Geese anyway. I mean I haven't had my guys long enough to recognize the finer points. They look close enough to photos of prize geese that I am fairly confident that they don't have major flaws but I really don't know how to judge them just yet.

You live close enough to me if you wanna trade some babies as breeding geese to get the best qualities out for show if you intrested .

 

[flockman]

8 out of 8!

 

[buff goose guy]

Amazing something bad went wrong with my geese

I looked yesterday she isn't really laying on anything she like somehow crushes the eggs while sitting on them

I think the other girl the one that crushed her eggs got into this one and killed her eggs . I'm gonna have to separate my pairs now but I really don't want to .
This girl had my boy with blue eyes goslings and now I'm really sad I'll have to probably wait till next month till they lay fertile again

 

[flockman]

Here is the happy family!