http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastopol_Goose
Now don’t get to excited, as I don’t have a purebred female to breed him to, but if you are interested in this breed, let me know and I will provide the contact info from where I got him from, she does a solid breeding program and would have purebred available for sale.
I got Lou to mate with Pom, giving me two breeding sets of geese for this year, we will see if I regret this idea or not.. I have Honk a mixed breed of Embden/ Pilgram and Hiss would appears to be a Embden/Buff.
Pom is a purebed female Pomeranian, who will be mated up with Lou the purebred Sebastopol Gander..
Of course the truth is the geese might have something to say about that, they might bond and breed in a way I was not expecting, but I am hoping that I won’t have to move them into breeding pairs, I am hoping that given that Honk/Hiss raised babies last year, will mean that they are mated up for this year.
The goal is to raise the babies as naturally as possible, with a light grain finish, I hope that each female will hatch out 6 to 12 babies per goose.
I am planning on ideally doing some goose down feather projects in the future, as well as wanting to plan for rendering a good amount of goose fat.
Do any of you raised geese? Any helpful hints or tips? While I do remember my mothers geese from my childhood, they hated me! and I have had Honk a couple years and I do so enjoy him and hiss, I was not quite as happy with Pom’s temperament, she is a little more pushy, Lou is a total sweetheart, he was imprinted on people as a wee babe and so he can be picked up, petted and handled.. total sweetheart but of course if mated and defending his female and babes, I expect that he will be a lot more protective.
Honk and Hiss were given the bought babies to raise last year (as Honk was bonded to Apple the duck hen when Hiss came and while she was laying, he would not bond or breed with her at that time) and they were amazing parents, and I have high hopes for them being the same this year, it will be Pom/Lou’s first year of breeding, so we will see..
I am open to any helpful hints or tips on raising geese as naturally as possible, I want the females to sit, hatch and the parent unit to raise the offspring..
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I love his fluffy feathers! Will you be raising the offspring to be eaten or something else?
The intent is to eat them, use the feathers and I hope that everything else will be able to be close looped on the farm, the bits for the hounds, the extra non-useable for bedding/stuffing feathers for composting for potassium for the garden. I have a friend that can most likely find a craft use for the really good quality long feathers. So I hope to cut down on the grain costs of raising fowl by doing more birds that can be pastured, geese are one of the best for this, plus if done correctly, they have a lot of 0 mile fat that can be rendered and used for baking/cooking etc I am not sure that I would give up goose fat for soap making though.. Everyone always thinks that pigs or a beef have a lot of fat but the truth is by the time you use it to get a good mix on the lean grass/hay feed meat, there is not that much really.. Some yes, but the farm could use more.
WOW! With a getup like that he should be on a Paris runway during Fashion Week; )
VERY cool feathers!!