Pilgrim geese - male or female???

[PartridgeRooster]

I have around 14 Pilgrim geese and they are great. I have 6 Ganders and the rest Geese. I wonder why they don't have a certain name for the female Geese as Geese is just plain.
My Pilgrims are nice but don't like to share their pond very much but they will.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Probably the same reason why female ducks are called 'ducks'....just not very creative apparently

 

[PartridgeRooster]

 

[Rosebud 18]

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The female is called a goose. A gander and a goose are a pair of geese. Two or more of either sex are geese.

 

[Sareny]

i was told these were 2 males and a female.. are they all female? not sure how old they are but the are huge so i would guess they are grown

 

[Sareny]

i was told these were 2 males and a female.. are they all female? not sure how old they are but the are huge so i would guess they are grown

 

[livininbrazil]

Two males and a female what? Toulouse I would guess. They´re not Pilgrim, I would say, as they look very solid grey, not diluted, and males would be white with pale grey touches.

 

[Sareny]

thank u... i have also come to that conclusion.. they have no white on their faces

 

[livininbrazil]

Young female pilgrims may not have white on their faces, but the greyness of yours makes me think they´re not female pilgrims. female pilgrims are a paler grey/brown colour. Yours also look quite big. But you´ll find out what they are soon enough by their behaviour and by their noises.

 

[rwebs]

so I bought 3 pilgrim thinking I bought a male and 2 female but now that they are feathered out they all look like males. What do you all think?