WANTED!!! Looking for some Sebastopol Geese Eggs for hatching.

[JordanFamily]

I really want to start a small flock of Sebastopol geese and was wondering if anyone on here has some eggs they can sell me to incubate. Also anyone have any advice for breeding and carring for this breed... Can they fly? Do they need to be in a fenced area so they don't run away??? How tall of fence? Are they very load? Thanks

 

[afeatherfan]

Can not fly, and they dont need a fence unless you want them in one and they do need a little extra shelter w/ straw in the winter they get cold. And they are not loud at all. Thay are very nice and real easy on the eyes just beautyful.Google them that is what I did.

 

[ultasol]

If you want to a) protect them from predators or b) keep them out of your garden or keep goose poop of your porch, your neighbors porch, etc then you need a fence. I let mine roam three acres of fenced pasture last summer and they roamed the ENTIRE area each and every day. Once I left a gate open and they gladly wandered up to the house to sit on the porch and leave 'presents' everywhere.

All geese can be loud.

Not trying to be a sourpuss, there are a great many positives to keeping geese, however in order to prevent people from being unprepared for the negatives (and potentially turned off by poultry keeping) I want to inject a dose of perfect, frank, honest experience.

The quietest geese I have been around are the Dewlap Toulouse. Even these can be loud given a reason to do so. Sebastopols can honk, and will do so readily, although not as readily or loudly as a Chinese or African.