The African and Chinese goose thread!!

[telandra2]

My spring feed store 'White Chinese' goslings are grown up now, and confusing. Moo Shu's mini dewlap is a headscratcher, and I can't see any conformation differences between them and the Brown Africans.

Am I correct in the knobs big enough now to make them both officially ganders?

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Sunshine (African) got a companion! Someone dumped this beautiful (I think girl) goose at the state park I work at. It took the rangers a couple weeks to catch her but now she lives here and Sunshine is over the moon for her. She seems rather content so have him around too Based on a whole bunch of guesses from random people on Facebook, I'm thinking she's possibly toulouse x white Chinese. I've named her Gypsy.

 

[Miss Lydia]

How precious.
Wonderful you were able to bring her home to your goose.

 

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Sunshine (African) got a companion! Someone dumped this beautiful (I think girl) goose at the state park I work at. It took the rangers a couple weeks to catch her but now she lives here and Sunshine is over the moon for her. She seems rather content so have him around too Based on a whole bunch of guesses from random people on Facebook, I'm thinking she's possibly toulouse x white Chinese. I've named her Gypsy.

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WOW, I've never seen a brown Chinese/African goose with eyes like that!! She's beautiful.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

WOW, I've never seen a brown Chinese/African goose with eyes like that!! She's beautiful.

"He" unfortunately. Gypsy ended up being a gander that decided that he hated my car. He put scratches the whole way around it from biting at it. He found a new home on an actual farm. Sunshine does now have a proven female companion though. I found him a young toulouse goose to keep him company....Lily goose

 

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"He" unfortunately. Gypsy ended up being a gander that decided that he hated my car. He put scratches the whole way around it from biting at it. He found a new home on an actual farm. Sunshine does now have a proven female companion though. I found him a young toulouse goose to keep him company....Lily goose

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Ah, geese.... They can be so finicky about the strangest things. Shame you couldn't keep him, but these two look lovely as well