Breed identification

[MillstoneAcres]

What breed are these geese? Not sure of gender but they were born in April 2021. Photo from September 2021. Thoughts?

 

[Goosebaby]

Either brown Chinese or Africans. They’re very young and I have no expierience with these two breeds specifically so it’s harder for me to tell the difference between the two.
Africans will be larger than Chinese, Chinese tend to be slimmer with longer necks.

 

[Goosebaby]

They could also be cross bred. Purebreds I thought had black bills until they were elderly.

 

[JedJackson]

They are definitely mixes. Either African or brown Chinese gave them the stripes that go down the back of their necks. But they lack the forehead knobs, black bills and carriage of those breeds. Some gray breed like Toulouse or American gray was probably the other parent, or the parents themselves could have been mixed.

 

[MillstoneAcres]

Thanks. I was told either pilgrim or African is what the geese he had were but they didn’t look quite like either. I guess I wait for an egg or not to find out sex!

 

[Goosebaby]

Probably pilgrim and African then.

 

[JRies]

I can see the pilgrim in the beak and neck feathering but there are other breeds it could be The African in the coloring on the neck. There are allot of breeders that put that combination of African to up the size and growth rate of there hatch lings. . Here is a picture of Africans I have the birds on the left are 2 Brown African the right 2 Buff African all hatched in April like yours. in the middle is a 2 year old hatchery African.