Sebastopol geese - selecting breeding stock, color genetics, and color improvement

[crj]

I have 4 Sebbie x Tufted Romans, and they are my babies. I paid $25.00 each for them. Hope this helps.






~ Aspen

They are very beautiful! I think you got a very good price for them.

 

[crj]

Sorry but breeding a sebastopol to an african is not recomended. You will have to sell all of them as pets and I have no idea of how much you ask for just hybrid/mutts.

Why is this not recommended? I didn't breed them they free range during the day and are penned together at night. It just so happened that the young male found the African attractive. All the adults but 1 are 1 1/2 yrs old. I didn't realize the African geese lay more often then the Sebbies. My African has been laying now for a while so I decided to see if her eggs would hatch and, well, they are. No one else is laying yet.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

They are very beautiful! I think you got a very good price for them.

Thank you. They are taking up a whole pen right now, that I need to be using for my Sebs...but I have a few projects in mind for them. Heehee Plus they are so darn cute. Those pics were taken a couple months ago. They've filled out more since then.

~ Aspen

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Aspen those Tufted Sebs are beautiful!

Thanks Vicky. I'm actually wanting to play around with them and get a Tufted Sebastapol. It'll take awhile, but I think it'll be fun. Right now I'm at a stand still, as the quad I have are all full brother and sister to each other....soooo not sure where to go from here. Thoughts?

Here are pictures of what they look like right now. I wish I could have gotten better pictures. The first bird looks a bit gray but in fact he's pure white and so are the others only with splash of colors. They wouldn't stay still this morning when I was trying to take pictures.

Pretty!

~ Aspen

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

My new Sebastopols from Shellie, that arrived this morning!!






Rusty checking out the new arrivals


Opening the boxes



FREEDOM!!!!







Checking out their new digs



Bath time






Hope you enjoyed


Night All

~ Aspen

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Aspen, so glad I warned you they may Jack-n-box jump out. How are they adjusting to the cold?

 

[crj]

Aspen, they are all beautiful! Wow, I guess they wanted out...... lol. Good luck with them.

 

[Cottage Rose]

Why is this not recommended? I didn't breed them they free range during the day and are penned together at night. It just so happened that the young male found the African attractive. All the adults but 1 are 1 1/2 yrs old. I didn't realize the African geese lay more often then the Sebbies. My African has been laying now for a while so I decided to see if her eggs would hatch and, well, they are. No one else is laying yet.

I think you got the wrong impression...I just meant if you wanted to sell them as "Sebastopols" which was what you originally asked correct? There's nothing wrong with cross breeding geese. I just meant if you wanted to breed and sell sebastopols throwing an African in there might produce traits you or your buyers don't want like the the big knobs, dew laps, big size etc. all of which can skip generations then pop up later.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Aspen, so glad I warned you they may Jack-n-box jump out. How are they adjusting to the cold?

I'm glad, too! They wanted out of there. They are doing great. It rained all night, the tarp had blown off of their pen this morning, so their bedding was wet. We're going to move them to our green house tonight, since there is nothing in there currently. : )

Aspen, they are all beautiful! Wow, I guess they wanted out...... lol. Good luck with them.

Thank you, they are my babies.

They are still warming up to me, I'm afraid I didn't make a good 1st impression on them last night, I had to chase them around, and around their pen before I could put them in their nightime pen. Ugh, poor babies! There is a tree right smack dab in the middle of their pen...it's really in the way, I tell you what.


I'll try and get some close ups of them today. Yesterday I tried to leave them alone as much as possible, so they could get used to their new home without me snapping 100s of pictures.

~ Aspen

 

[pips&peeps]

Thanks Vicky. I'm actually wanting to play around with them and get a Tufted Sebastapol. It'll take awhile, but I think it'll be fun. Right now I'm at a stand still, as the quad I have are all full brother and sister to each other....soooo not sure where to go from here. Thoughts?
Pretty!

~ Aspen

Aspen,

Why don't you breed the females to a good curly male and the males to a good curly female. Then you can take the best offspring from that and breed them back together. You should get some goslings from the later breeding that have the tufts and you can go from there.

If you get a quad of good curly whites and seperate and mark all the babies you should have no inbreeding problems and the generation that has the tufts should have well diversified genes and you can proliferate from there.