Geese vs Muscovy Ducks

[Spifflove]

Good eye! Definetly a trio. The feedstore staff pretended not to know their sexes but it is one male and two females.

Well, I have both though I haven't had geese for all that long. If I HAD to choose, I'd pick muscovy. Lay more and I want lots of ducklings to grow out. But if you have the room and want to just keep the geese or breed them why not both.

It looks like the knob on one of the geese is much larger than the others. Did the feed store tell you the sexes? It may be a trio, that would be nice to keep to breed.

Edited to add:

I realized I didn't give the + and -.
Geese are MESSY and much more gross than muscovy. I never knew something could poop SO much overnight.
Geese (at least mine) are LOUD. This is a + when they are alerting but not when its 6 am and I'm letting them out.
Geese graze alot, though I'm having coyote issues right now so no real free ranging for the time being.
Muscovy graze a bit but eat tons of bugs.
Muscovy will lay more eggs so therefore will produce more offspring.
Both are seasonal layers though I have a muscovy sitting on a nest right now.
Muscovy is DELICIOUS, I haven't had goose yet but hadn't had muscovy meat before raising them.
All I can think of for now.
I am having to quickly decide if I'm processing a goose for Thanksgiving or not.

I'm not 100% on the sex of mine and I'd hate to process a female. I'm trying to talk the hubby into letting me buy a grown turkey for Thanksgiving to process but for now its a no go.

I guess I need to break down and ea.... I mean buy a pre-processed Muscovy, from ... Trader Joe's, ya that's the ticket! But the proof of the pudding is in the tasting.

 

[petjem]

That was the feed store pen we rescued them from. My wife sent the picture via text message.

They now graze, but only off the pond water so far, not the grass.

So other points:

Geese: Meat class
Muscovy: Meat class

Eggs: Comparable.

Good job!

I haven't kept geese but I'd love too. We were tricked when we bought these muscovy ducklings as the man sold them to us for goslings. We've loved them and wouldn't change them. I'm also considering what [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]jdywntr [/FONT]said though about geese and think that I might not have the right space for them as I keep my muscovies very near the house. I wouldn't like geese screaming in my ears all day long. Since you've got room I would try both of them if I were you.

Bad thing about me is that I can't eat my animals. Well till now at least.

 

[razvanM]

I riase both,I love both very much,they are great birds to have.Muscovies have a better meat to bone ratio,but geese are larger and have are more flavourfull.

 

[Spifflove]

Well I tried my first Muscovy today! Its the first duck I could not polish off in one sitting. Tastes sortal like veal, better than other duck I have eaten so far. Although my Pekins are getting huge and fat. This was the first duck that had a massive chest and didn't seem like a waste of time ovening.

I will have to wait until spring to try goose

Maybe store bought for Christmas.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

not all geese are yellers. Africans and Chinese are KNOWN for being very loud birds. Plenty of other breeds that make good table birds who arent so darn loud.

 

[Rosecomb-Ryan]

not all geese are yellers. Africans and Chinese are KNOWN for being very loud birds. Plenty of other breeds that make good table birds who arent so darn loud.

I have had many different breeds of Geese but I raise Show Quality Brown Africans. They are not loud at all. A lot of people like to say Africans are loud because most of them actually own chinas or Production Africans. Real Africans are NOT loud.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

thats the biggest difference, and I didnt ear mark my statement that production africans are loud.

 

[Rosecomb-Ryan]

thats the biggest difference, and I didnt ear mark my statement that production africans are loud.

Yep! ;-)

 

[Miss Lydia]

So production Africans are not Real Africans?

 

[flockman]

So production Africans are not Real Africans?

Production Africans are not as large don't have a dewlap and the knob may not be as pronounced. They are more active than the Dewlap Africans. From what I understand Dewlap Africans are more calm and easy tempered than production africans.