roboboy
Songster
I don't think carriage is the best way to decide african or china as an african gander of mine has carried himself different each year since birth.
as a first year gander
2 yrs old
3 yrs old
the hen on his right had production in her and though not large she had goslings of very nice type as evidenced by the gander who is her son.
This is her with that young gander's father (her paunch is large due to heavy egg production in her youth and her age of at least 8+years)
back when I had some production africans they were tiny (the hen on the right and the far side of the gander) and they had long thin necks and the far hen stood up as tall as the one goose in willowbrook's photo. I'll have to look around to see if i can find a picture of them standing...maybe on my old computer... (the gander though is a exhibtion bird descended from Brian Schulte's stock and if i remember correctly about a month younger than the other two.)
The neck of your african in your picture Soccer Mom is an african characteristic, my birds hunch their neck like that too because they're cold, during the majority of the year though they keep them fairly long and steched.
I would say they appear more chinaish due to their body shape, smaller compact, a more prominent forward protruding knob, and a lack of dewlaps.
as a first year gander
2 yrs old
3 yrs old
the hen on his right had production in her and though not large she had goslings of very nice type as evidenced by the gander who is her son.
This is her with that young gander's father (her paunch is large due to heavy egg production in her youth and her age of at least 8+years)
back when I had some production africans they were tiny (the hen on the right and the far side of the gander) and they had long thin necks and the far hen stood up as tall as the one goose in willowbrook's photo. I'll have to look around to see if i can find a picture of them standing...maybe on my old computer... (the gander though is a exhibtion bird descended from Brian Schulte's stock and if i remember correctly about a month younger than the other two.)
The neck of your african in your picture Soccer Mom is an african characteristic, my birds hunch their neck like that too because they're cold, during the majority of the year though they keep them fairly long and steched.
I would say they appear more chinaish due to their body shape, smaller compact, a more prominent forward protruding knob, and a lack of dewlaps.
If they were to produce, and assuming they have another breed in there, would the offspring look similar to the parents or would I get a completely different looking goose?
I would think that any offspring would be similar, the size and shape of the white stripe may change, but what ever produced them obviously had similar babies or they would not look alike.
I would think that any offspring would be similar, the size and shape of the white stripe may change, but what ever produced them obviously had similar babies or they would not look alike.
