Calling all SEBASTOPOL fanciers... PICTURES!

[chickygirl2]

Yes, I am going by the saddleback pattern. Let's see what others think. Vicky?
patty

 

[M0therGoose]

JIMMOOSE, CastleCreekFarm, and ShadyGlade-- what sex do YOU think my babies are?

By the way, Jimmoose, what adorable babies you have! And a gorgeous family of Sebs too! What sex do you think your babies are? Both girls?

 

[ShadyGlade]

MOtherGoose I wouldn't even hazard a guess. I bought our trio last summer after breeding season was done as a pair and a young female. This is my first year hatching Sebbies and I would like to know what mine are also.

I'm not a terrific photographer but you can see one in the front & one to the back with a Buff and a Pilgrim between them

Here's one up close

Here's the other

The new one just just hatched a couple of days ago so I don't have a picture yet.

Sorry I'm no help but they are lovely little guys/dolls.

 

[Cottage Rose]

If y'all want to do the guessing game see the picture I posted of a male and a female gosling on page 1. This is your typical male and female pattern.

Just for fun...what do you think this one is, the solid gray on the bottom of the 1st pic. It defies the normal of the so called classic dark cap and saddle female color pattern in white Sebastopols.
I had no idea what it was.
I called it "Darky It Thing" for the longest time.
DIT ended up being a goose (re-named Chiffon)and a white that carries saddleback which we didn't know until she had babies this year. DIT parents were both white! Notice a dark on her beak? It seems the white color gene carriers have this on their beaks when they hatch out but I don't know if that is in 100% of all cases since I have little experience with colored Sebs.
2009 is my first year w/ hatching out colored Sebs but I have a friend who breeds them on a large scale and I pick her brain all the time.

Anyway this just goes to show you how color in hatchling Sebs doesn't really fit a set pattern or color.

Darky It Thing/AKA Chiffon

 

[jimmoose]

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Thank You MOtherGoose. I have not a clue what sex they are, I'm pretty
ignorant as to the sexing although my wife is giving it a shot. My interest
in Sebastopols has grown due to several great people that have posted
on this very thread. (Cottage Rose is costing me a fortune)
Their easy nature, friendliness and intelligence makes a Sebastopol
the goose of choice to own, in my opinion.
Not to take anything away from BYC, and I don't know it its allowed,
but check out:
http://www.sebastopols.freeforums.org/
If not allowed to link, Mods please delete, sorry.
Wonderful people and a wealth of knowledge on Sebastopols geese.
You'll see many that frequent BYC and its not a competing site.
jim

 

[chickygirl2]

Vicky, what does Chiffon look like now? Does this now fit the color you would have expected from the pairing?

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

Oh the pain! I've wanted some of these for so long... alas, there's no room in the city. Do they come in bantams? LOL

 

[Cottage Rose]

Chiffon is all white from all white parents.
We didn't know what was going on until she produced saddlebacks bred to a saddleback which typically shouldn't happen with the F1 cross (as far as I can gather). Chiffon's parent's breeder mentioned after thinking about it that one of her foundation gooses had a black spot so we think she was a carrier of saddleback and I have some of her kids, (Chiffons parents).
What flabbergasted me was that color gene didn't get lost with at least 2 generations of white x white breeding.

Hey Jim...do I get a commission?!

 

[jimmoose]

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I just put it in the mail. Great pics Vicky!
jim

 

[castlecreekfarm]

I can't tell you whether or not it's a boy or a girl!!!

I am reading this and trying to figure out how to sex my first Sebbie gosling of the season!!

It hatched yesterday and is the cutest little gosling! I have him/her is with some African Greys I am hatching. I really enjoy all the photos you all have posted.