Chinese or African?

[wrenhen]

I recently got a pair of geese, the male is a white chinese and the female is a brown goose. I am unsure if she is african or brown chinese, she was labelled as african but who knows. She is much shorter than the male.
Here she is, unsure of age

 

[AGeese]

Where did you get them?

 

[wrenhen]

Where did you get them?

From my dad who got them at one of those outdoor flea market sales.

 

[AGeese]

They're essentially the same breed.

 

[Goosebaby]

Hatchery Africans can vary quite a bit from exhibition Africans. Brown Chinese tend to be just brown versions of white Chinese, so small, light weight, slender, and keel-less. Africans tend to be a bit bigger and have a build that can be a little stouter but not always, but are keel-less also, hatchery africans can be harder to differentiate with brown Chinese sometimes because they can vary so much.

For your girl I lean towards her being an African because she does look like she does have a bit of a stouter build, almost like she’s somewhere between a Chinese and a greylag derived breed, like a Toulouse.

 

[Goosebaby]

They're essentially the same breed.

In most cases probably.

 

[Goosebaby]

So this is what ideally Chinese are supposed to look like

https://www.waterfowl.org.uk/domestic-waterfowl/domestic-geese/chinese-goose/

This is what an African is supposed to look like, mind you these are exhibition grade birds.

https://livestockconservancy.org/heritage-breeds/heritage-breeds-list/african-goose/

This is your average African, a little bit in between

https://flic.kr/p/63wCyn