More geese

A new pair.

 

 

 

Found another breeding pair of Pilgrims. These are a really nice example of the breed and unrelated to our other pair. Word gets around that we are keeping Pilgrim geese and these were offered to us as their owners were moving to the mainland. Sometimes you can just get lucky.

We are taking a slightly different approach to commercial flock production with our geese breeding. Rather than run five geese to one gander, we going to let them remain in bonded pairs. Given the opportunity, geese mate for life and while total production per adult bird will decline, I believe it will be better for the welfare of our birds.

If commercial production was the dominant factor in selecting our geese breed, the Pilgrim wouldn’t even rate; their average egg production is only about 30 per year, poor hatching rates in an incubator and slower growth rates. However, left as pairs, they are excellent natural parents, are not aggressive, forage well and are supposed to be one of the best eating geese. Ideal for small scale free range production.