Pictures of Splash Female Geese

[Dances with Ducks]

I'm pretty new when it comes to geese and have so much to learn. In the past two years I've hatched out splashes from completely different parents and I am beginning to suspect that all splashes are male.
Color genetics in geese are so complex, and the ability to identify even what color a particular goose is can be thrown off by dilution genes or whatever. Also the names we use for different colors aren't always the same from person to person.
Given all that I still want to try to figure out if the splash pattern only shows up in male geese, which I hope isn't true because I would love to own a splash female.

If you have a splash goose that has proven her sex by laying eggs would you mind posting a photo of her. I will say I have seen some photos of female geese that the owners believed to be splash but to me looked instead to saddleback or lavender. I am willing to be corrected on this, I am absolutely no expert on goose genetics or colors.

Thank you to anyone who can help educate me on this question.

 

[8GeeseALaying]

What are the breeds of your geese that are poducing the splash? That would help with figuring this out, and possibly posting some pics of the offspring. Pete55 is the one that can really tell you about this. He is very knowledgeable about genetics and possibilties of color paterns in geese and whether or not those colors will be one gender or the other.

 

[Dances with Ducks]

Thanks for jumping in 8Geese!
I only have Sebastopols but I was thinking the rules of goose genetics would apply to all geese, actually now that I think about it maybe to only those derived from the Greylag.
I know the feathering on the Sebbies can make the colors appear a little different.

Pete helped me ID this one as a splash on another forum, we we not sure if he is a blue or a dilute grey. He sort of looks lavender in this photo except that dark shading on the top of his neck is actually one of several darker blotches he had. His egg was from a flock with a lot of different colors and his parentage is unknown. He was pretty young in these photos.


This is one of those I've hatched this year, you can see the grey feathers just starting to come in on its wings.

 

[8GeeseALaying]

Im not sure if its the same thing, but i have brown chinese, white chinese and tufted romans so i asked what i would get if they would happen to crossbreed as far as colors. Pete told me that if the browns were to cross with either of the white breeds i would get white females and gray dilute or pied/splash males. I hatched out 12 of those crosses and if its true then i have 4 pied/splash males 1 possible dilute gray male (hes lighter then the other 4) and 7 white females. I dont know how to vent sex so im not sure what they are. Like you i am hoping to get a pied/splash female, but i trust pete so im going to say he is right. Im keeping them all so i should know next spring.

 

[Dances with Ducks]

That shows you how much I know, I would have thought the Chinese and the Romans were different species and couldn't produce offspring with each other.
Also I don't even know what a Pied looks like, is that the same as Saddleback, or is that another word for Splash? I have read that there are one or two genes that are at least sometimes called Pied, and at one at least has to do with creating Splash. From the way you stated it maybe Pied and Splash are the same thing?
I'm so confused with goose genetics!
I do hope we can get our Splash females!

 

[8GeeseALaying]

It confuses me too. From what i got from it they meant the same thing. I dont know. This is my second year having geese so im still learning also. I asked the same thing about tufteds and chinese producing and was told they would and the babies would still be fertile. Sure enough i have goslings with a tuft on their head and a place for knob on their bills those are my pied/splash.

 

[Dances with Ducks]

Knobs, tufts, pied/splash, that's quite a bouquet of genes you've hatched there!!!

 

[8GeeseALaying]

Yeah for sure. These were the only crosses i hatched the first batch were pure chinese. Wasnt expecting these to be crosses as i didnt think i had them together long enough to do that since each breed had their own gander and was bonded to their own females or so i thought lol My brown gander is for sure the father of most. Next year i will keep them seperate longer. Brown and white chinese crossed are still pure chinese its just color mixing. A tufted chinese will be an interesting sight lol

 

[8GeeseALaying]

Here is my tufted splash or pied whatever its called lol this was when he was a day old

He has white wings which i have never seen on any other gosling i hatched before this one

The other 4 are variations of this pattern. I know yours looks ALOT different but this what i have found to be pied on other places on the net.