The African and Chinese goose thread!!

[servpolice]

They are in the 2016-Gosling-hatch-along but I'll get them again besides this is the African and Chinese goose thread so I might aswell post the pictures

 

[NathanZee]

They are in the 2016-Gosling-hatch-along but I'll get them again besides this is the African and Chinese goose thread so I might aswell post the pictures

Yeah! I don't see many pictures of Buff Africans. Do you know if there are any Buff Chinese, or any other colors of swan geese than brown, buff and white?

 

[servpolice]

The weather was terrible so they don't look very pretty so here are some of my Africans most are less then a year old.

Female infront is 3 the other brown gander is less then a year old and in the back are my breeding buff African pair.

Sloppy Joe

(sloppy Joes father)

His mother is a buff African while his father is a brown African. (he has the buff gene therefore he can produce buff female goslings).

Brothers (both have same buff mother and different fathers).

Sloppy Joe suffering from wet feather which will weer away once the non-rain stops. Which it did finally!

Nearly a year old male not using him for breeding as he's too young.

Sloppy Joe

She's less then a year old and I wouldn't use her for breeding this year as she is too young.

These are all less then a year old except Sloppy Joe who is 2 this year and photobombing!

 

[servpolice]

All these pictures are from two years ago and as you commanded here are some Buff African geese....

Buff Chinese geese don't exist (yet) I once tired using buff African and white Chinese and it worked but unfortunately I stopped but I'm trying to create it again!
Buff Chinese infront with my brown african gander and my buff african pair.

Buff African gosling out of incubator.
This is Sloppy Joe at 5hours old after coming out of his shell.

About a week old Buff African goslings (sloppy Joe on the left).

Buff African gosling at about a month and a half old (also Sloppy Joe).

Sloppy Joe at 5 months old

Sloppy Joes father

Bunch of buff African geese chilling.

Oldest African pair

There's 100s of more pictures but you can just view them in my profile

I am hoping to get atleast 10 buff African goslings this year and 20 brown African goslings

 

[NathanZee]

All these pictures are from two years ago and as you commanded here are some Buff African geese....



Buff Chinese geese don't exist (yet) I once tired using buff African and white Chinese and it worked but unfortunately I stopped but I'm trying to create it again!
Buff Chinese infront with my brown african gander and my buff african pair.




Buff African gosling out of incubator.
This is Sloppy Joe at 5hours old after coming out of his shell.



About a week old Buff African goslings (sloppy Joe on the left).


Buff African gosling at about a month and a half old (also Sloppy Joe).


Sloppy Joe at 5 months old


Sloppy Joes father


Bunch of buff African geese chilling.


Oldest African pair

There's 100s of more pictures but you can just view them in my profile

I am hoping to get atleast 10 buff African goslings this year and 20 brown African goslings

Oh wow thank you! I didn't know you had so many! I've never had wet feather, is it a condition or were his feathers just wet for a long time? Why do some of them have orangish knobs? How old is the oldest pair in the last picture? That buff chinese is beautiful!

 

[servpolice]

I'm starting my African breeding program in Ireland to bring the African breed back to life!
This breed is rare here so I would hate to see it die out.
Wet feather is when your geese feathers aren't water proof anymore due to either them not washing themselves in clean water or due to too much rain that lasts for days non-stop.
In Ireland it rains a lot in the winter :/
Pure brown african geese should never have any orange on their bills if they do have orange on their bills they are a crossbreed or a Chinese.Unless it's frostbite which causes the knob to get orange spots but eventually the spots will get black again.
On the other hand with buff Africans the older the geese get the more orange the beak and knob get.
Also buff African breeders in warmer countries get pure buff African goslings forming orange beaks and knobs at a young age (reason I don't know).

I don't really know how old the oldest pair are but I got them as a pair when they were 8 years old and I have them for 7 years this year so 15 years old but the male was taken by a fox last year
Last year I was gone all summer and family took care of the geese but the fox took half of my African flock and they didn't notice until they saw the fox chasing the geese in the field.
And the geese stayed in the yard for a whole month at one stage

 

[chicken hawk 33]

are you sure I shouldn't start spraying my goose egg

 

[holm25]

are you sure I shouldn't start spraying my goose egg

I have only heard of people doing that once u go into lockdown.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

I have only heard of people doing that once u go into lockdown.

o,

 

[servpolice]

are you sure I shouldn't start spraying my goose egg

No way before lockdown you spray the eggs.
People use different tactics of spraying the eggs.
I spray mine at day nine and afterwards wet them every other day until day 28.