Giant exhibition Dewlap Toulouse - Average Lifespan?

[Leader Bee]

I thought i'd done lots of research before getting them that said approx 25 years and upwards to 40 but i've seen a few things recently saying that it's more likely to be around 10.

can anyone comment with their experience please?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Don't know about geese, but I know the huge, giant Brahma roosters have a shorter lifespan just because if how fast and large they grow. St least thays what i was told

 

[Goosebaby]

Mine are production type Toulouse so I can’t say, though my oldest is Leo and he just turned 10 and he seems unusually large for a goose, not necessarily heavy because he’s always naturally been a light eater, but large.
Metzer farms says the average lifespan of geese is 10, but I know there are a lot of older geese. It’s hard to say what the natural lifespan is because there are so many variables, people care for their geese so differently and health problems can sometimes come out of nowhere.

 

[Leader Bee]

It makes sense to me that a larger breed would have a shorter lifespan, given this is a similar trait in dogs for example - I'd hope my two guys live for longer than 10 years though.

 

[Goosebaby]

It makes sense to me that a larger breed would have a shorter lifespan, given this is a similar trait in dogs for example - I'd hope my two guys live for longer than 10 years though.

True, bigger breeds do have problems, but if you cancel out predation and sub optimal living conditions, meaning they’re clean and well cared for like yours are it lessens the chance of disease so that boosts their life expectancy, of course there’s always accidents and the chance of unknown illness that can come out of nowhere “like what I’m dealing with right now,” there’s no way to predict if anything like those could happen so all you can do is do the best you can for them, try tO keep them at a healthy weight, keep them fit and eating well and so on.

Honestly though you can do all the right things and It doesn’t always make a that much of a differerence, take me for example. Some of my birds like Leo have never had an issue, others of mine have. I have a female pekin “Henry” who’s 13. Typically a normal lifespan for a duck is 9. A lot of pekins only make it to 5. Her man Olaf is a jumbo pekin. He isn’t the picture of health, he looks like a turkey with popcicle sticks for legs, typically jumbos are bred for meat production so I expected his heart to give out years ago but he just turned 9.
I take decent care of my birds but I suck at it compared to some of the duck parents I’ve met on Instagram, there’s this one awesome duck mom who takes better care of her’s than a lot of people take care of their kids, I’m not kidding, these ducks live inside and have a better life than I do .
unfortunatly one of her sweet ducks died of cancer at only a year old which was heartbreaking.
There’s this other guy I heard about who has a gander that looks like he’s almost feral, lives almost like a wild goose and he’s in his 20s!

The point is don’t let that worry get to you to much, there more to life than can be controlled and if something does happen you like everyone else did all you could and have them an awesome life.

 

[Leader Bee]

Well I never plan on having children of my own so these guys really are my babies, they'll get the best care and love I can give them.

I'm hoping I can be the UK equivalent of George the goose's owner