The differance between chinese and "grey type" geese goslings

[ThiefPouter06]

I got some 3+ week old geese today. How can you tell the diff between chinese and toulouse and embden goslings?

 

[Bleenie]

I am sure you can't tell yet but chinese geese have smooth necks while toulouse & most other types have deep ridges in the neck feathering.. It's a Greylag trait & from what i have read and heard, most breeds of geese today were derived from the Greylags but Chinese geese were developed from the Swan Goose.

 

[ThiefPouter06]

Here is some pics of them out grazing.

 

[ThiefPouter06]

Brown chinese goslings should have black bills not orange correct?

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

i think if you compare the upper beak edge of the white ones, the chinese will have a different kind of shape there, with little ridges.... in the second picture, the back one on the left is a chinese. and I think the front one in the first picture. the toulouse are the grey ones, and the embden are the other ones.

 

[Kevin565]

http://blog.metzerfarms.com/

The last article explains the difference in the beaks with pictures

 

[ThiefPouter06]

good link. I got some clarity on the guy I got them from. He has white and brown chinese and embden. So the grey are either embded or crosses of chinese and embden.