The African and Chinese goose thread!!

[fikeyismybaby]

Haha ive two out of 20ish geese that let me near their nest and rub her and pick up her goslings one is a brown african female also

How did you train her to do that?

 

[servpolice]

i had them as goslings and they were the only two together and same age and i always gave them a snack
And its in their nature too !
Africans are either very calm or very aggerssive (only aggerssive if they are scared of you or never spent time with them when they were young

 

[WaterfowlWierdo]

Yes, africans are the gentle giants! I dont think I would ever get anything else

 

[servpolice]

I love africans! They make my flock

 

[goingducks]

So the Goslings I got I found out one is Chinese and one is African. I know that one is a male and one is a female because they were sexed. How old do they have to be to tell them apart from male female? I know that the male is usually bigger but since they are two different breeds I don't know if it will be easy to tell. They have names but we don't know which one is Bonnie and which one is Clyde lol. I know with my runners the boy will be bigger with curly tail feathers so I think they will be easy enough to tell apart

 

[goingducks]

Hmm I just read somewhere that African have orange feet and Chinese has black feet well they both have black feet so I guess they are both Chinese. Man this stuff is confusing how did all of you learn all the ins and outs of geese?

 

[servpolice]

Its the opposite way round africans have brown feet and chinese have orange

 

[goingducks]

Oh! well then I guess I have Africans then! It doesn't really matter to me I wanted either an African or Chinese and they are very similar to each other. Do there feet change colors at all from gosling to goose?

 

[servpolice]

Yes the africans get dark rusty colour or brownish orange while the chinese get orange

 

[Dawnrenae]

I have a very ANGRY Chinese gander and his lovely wifey, an African goose.

Cheep cheep as we affectionately call momma, is not a broody bird for sure, so we are going to try artificial incubation.

I was just wondering if anyone has had a successful hatch with a mix breed?