Dual lobes and duck keels in African geese

[WhiteAfrican923]

I have a pair of production bred brown Africans from Townline hatchery. The gander does not have lobes and has the body of a production bred china. The female has a duck keel and as do the other brown females I have with the exception of a yearling female. The female in question is dual lobed. My question is is it possible to breed a lobless gander to a duck keeled female and get dual lobed offspring. The whole concept of lobes and duck keels is confusing. I know duck keels in africans are a defect. Is there any possible way to get rid of the duck keel besides not breeding to that female? What is the difference between a single lobed bird and a duck keel?

 

[Yellow House Farm]

I've never heard the term "duck" keel used.

To be honest, there is really no reason to begin an African goose breeding project from hatchery stock. They are very commonly cross-bred, and it would take three decades of intense breeding to get them up to snuff.

SQ Africans are easy enough to find. If you're serious in your interests, I can point you in a couple of directions. Then, when your working on breeding dilemmas, it will be much more vluable for you as a beginning breeder. The reality with your stock is that there is going to be so much undisciplined genetics going on that every season would be a game of genetic Russian roulette for at least a decade--and that's only if you were breeding in number with a high level of discipline and rigidity of criteria.