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

[flaming007]

Its never hard selling sebastopols

 

[JosieChick]

In fact one of my best females Blueberry Muffin was sired by him but I
never got anymore quite like her from that pairing.

Unless you are me and can't part with any of them!!! I was gone for a week and just got back and fell in love with a white curly youngster that I was going to sell this fall......

Its never hard selling sebastopols

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Lilac goose above 2012 hatch


buff geese below (Creme Brulee 2012 & unnamed 2013)






buff gander below (Justice)



unnamed 2013 female gosling 3 1/2 months old,




Our buffs are slow in feather growth but when they finish filling in its fun to bury your hands in

 

[RURU]

Very nice Celtic!
I took pictures of the 3 I got from you and will post them here. I think they are coming alone nicely.....

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

This is Einstein, a 2013 white gander from Barb (RURU) currently growing out here on the farm

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Barb, Justice pictured above is dad to your two buff girls. His curl increased again this year so watch for them to gain more over time.

These are the fathers of your trio. Justice in front and McGraw behind

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

parents of your grey boy, creme brulee and mcgraw

 

[RURU]

Great pictures Shellie. Seeing the father's of the trio is great. JJ's mother is lovely. May I copy the pictures to put on my website as the parents of JJ and the father of the girls?? Do you have a picture of the girls mother?

On the white from me his chest will get furrowing as he ages his parents did.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

I will pull Liberty's pictures, I was focused on certain birds yesterday and need to sit and take more this week if I can of the others.

Feel free to show them as the parents. I will see if we can pose the pairs together too.

Einstein has changed a lot over the last weeks so not feeling stressed over his feathering yet. Seems i am stuck with lots of slow feathering birds lol

 

[RURU]

Shellie on some of the Sebastopol's I have seen them get lots of feathering the first year and then their 2nd year they do not get the same feathering as their first season. So to me improvement over the year is better than the feathering not coming in like their first season.....
Kinda looks like a feather picker got them.