What breed of goose is this?

[Emully]

Hello, I am new to this site so I hope I'm posting in the right place!

What breed of goose is this gosling? It is my cousins gosling, she said she found a giant egg in a parking lot so she took it home and put it on a heating pad to see if it would hatch. Somehow, a few days later it actually hatched. It is 2 weeks and 3 days old.

I first saw it when she brought it to my house a week ago. She wants me to let the goose live at my house when it is a little older, because I have chickens (no experience with geese) and she lives in an apartment.
At that time it had all pitch black feet, legs, and beak so I figured it was a Canada Goose and told her it can't live here because it is illegal to have Canada geese where I live. She brought it back over today because she said the feet and legs were changing color.
Sure enough, in just the week it has been since I saw it last the legs have changed from solid dark black and are now almost completely olive colored and almost pink tinted on the back.
The feet are turning yellow/olive as well.
We can't find anything on the internet that looks like this. Everything I am reading and the pictures I am seeing canada geese and goslings feet and legs are solid black. The beak is still completely solid black, like a canada goose. The beak does not have a colored tip and it is not showing signs of color change that I have noticed.

Has anyone ever seen anything like this?

 

[Pyxis]

It's a Canada goose. The legs don't stay all black as they age:

And she needs to give it to a wildlife rehabber right now so they can properly raise it to be released into the wild. She can't just raise it and let it go; it will die if she does that.

 

[Emully]

Oh ok thank you!! I knew it had to be a canada goose when I first saw it and then when I saw those legs and feet I started to worry something was wrong with the bird. I couldnt find pictures like these you posted showing the feet color like hers. And yes I told her all of those things a week ago, and that it cannot live here if its a Canada goose. She didn't listen to me, and even got upset with me for not letting it live here. She lives in an apartment, you cant really hide a Canada goose in there, so she will realize this soon. I just hope she calls sooner rather than later because it seems really attached to her and that's only going to get harder for the goose the longer it stays with her. I really dont want to betray her by calling a rehabber myself behind her back, but that goose deserves a chance at being a goose so I will if she doesn't.

 

[FarmerGirl101]

Welcome to BYC!! I would call a wildlife rehabber to see if they will take him/her in. If they will then I would give him/her away sooner then later as the earlier it can be sent the faster it will be to turn him/her out into the wild

 

[Pyxis]

Oh ok thank you!! I knew it had to be a canada goose when I first saw it and then when I saw those legs and feet I started to worry something was wrong with the bird. I couldnt find pictures like these you posted showing the feet color like hers. And yes I told her all of those things a week ago, and that it cannot live here if its a Canada goose. She didn't listen to me, and even got upset with me for not letting it live here. She lives in an apartment, you cant really hide a Canada goose in there, so she will realize this soon. I just hope she calls sooner rather than later because it seems really attached to her and that's only going to get harder for the goose the longer it stays with her. I really dont want to betray her by calling a rehabber myself behind her back, but that goose deserves a chance at being a goose so I will if she doesn't.

To complicate matters, it NEEDS to learn how to fend for itself in the wild and it needs to be able to bond with an adult Canada goose so that it can learn the migration routes. No adult to follow to learn the routes, no migrating, and it will starve to death in the winter. A rehabber would likely know of a flock they could graft the little one onto.