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Traits: Striped Feathers, Cream Feathers, All KINDS OF FEATHERS

5/27/2020

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Tupelo during the feathering out stage
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Philodendron showing the usual chest feathers of a feathering out goose
My slow and adorable goose named Tupelo was quite a marvel when she first feathered out. Typically a young goose when he or she first feathers out will have a bunch of speckled feathers on their chest and the chest will look brownish. But Tupelo was an exception. Her chest feathers were cream. Apart from the chest feathers there are the tail feathers. Most geese will have sloppy coloring on their tail feathers. Each tail feather has a gray spot in the middle outlined by a thick white border. Sometimes that spot is not all that perfect and has a mixture of white on it. Other times the top half of the tail feather can be white while the bottom half is gray with some of both color mixed in. So it is rather crazy when first feathering out and can stay crazy even past that. 

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Willow's Flock Naming SyStem

5/23/2020

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Goslings
When I got my first goose I had not decided on what I would name them after. It did not take too long before I came up with something. I wanted something I knew a good amount about and that is... trees! My first goose was named after my favorite tree - Weeping Willow. Now that I have had many geese and had to come up with many names they are helping me continue to learn about fascinating trees! I also allow myself to do shrubs so that I will have plenty of names to use for a long time.

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Traits: The Head shapes of geese

5/20/2020

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Eastern Redbud - Rounded Head
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Cedar-of-Lebanon - Square Head
Some geese have rounder heads than others. In my opinion, females who have a rounder head look better than ones with squarer heads. There are many variations and how their head is shaped is one of the most distinctive characteristics for distinguishing individuals. This trait will have to be decided to one's own opinion because of all the variation.

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The Children of Sassafras

5/18/2020

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Butternut (left) and Sassafras (right)
Sassafras was one of my first geese. She was one of those goslings I could identify when she was young. It was also guessed that she was a female. She grew up to have a nice trait - a dark stripe. She was the second to last to lay last year and the following year she began laying in December. Unfortunately, a fox would get her on January 11. But because she had been laying previous to this I could hatch a few goslings from her. 

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Traits: Artist's touch

5/16/2020

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Two Goslings
Up until now I had been calling my goslings with orange on their feet 'Piedfoot' goslings. This is not completely accurate and so I decided to give it a new name - Artist's Touch. The picture of the two goslings shows one with this trait. It usually looks like this and does not look very random. Some have less but it is always at the end of the foot. It sometimes makes one, two, or all three of the claws white instead of gray/black. 

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geese on a hay bale

5/15/2020

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Paper Mulberry
I knew very little about what geese did, why they did it, and what they enjoy doing. One of the things they love most is to get up onto higher objects such as hay bales, cinder blocks, etc. I would assume they like these higher places because it means they are sort of in the sky. Like they are flying. The instincts of flying are still somewhat there in these domesticated geese but they cannot go anywhere. Apart from the instincts of being up in the sky, they also just like to have some fun. Most of their fun involves pecking at things and swimming around in the water. They may just stand there on the hay bale or whatever the thing is or they might also be grabbing pieces of hay or pecking at the thing. 

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Traits: Eye-colors

5/14/2020

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Cedar-of-Lebanon showing brown eyes
I had originally decided on four types of eye-colors: Sassafras, Cherry, Ash, and Wide Eyes. This proved incredibly complicated because the Sassafras and Cherry eye-colors proved to be very similar except for one gander with the Cherry eye-color. But that was one goose. I decided to merge Sassafras and Cherry and simply go with Brown. Sassafras was named after one of my geese who passed this eye-color on to three of her offspring. I used Cherry because this color I considered to have a reddish look to it. I kept Ash and Wide Eyes although they may prove to be complicated sometimes as well.

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Traits: dandelion's eyebrows

5/13/2020

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Dandelion has grown to have a fascinating trait. He has a big gray spot above each eye that makes him look like he has eyebrows. I cannot call by name any previous gosling from the past who may have had this same trait. It is quite possible none of them ever had it as Dandelion is from a different bloodline. I will be watching to see if this will completely disappear or if it will make his coloring slightly or obviously different from the other geese when he is fully feathered out.

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Determining whose gosling is whose

5/10/2020

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Goslings
My way of determining who a gosling's parents are is not 100% certain but I have noticed various things that can help in making a guess of who it could be. Usually, you cannot tell who the parents of a gosling is when they are young. As they grow you can see the similarities to one of the parents or both of them. I notice their mother's characteristics but perhaps the gander's shows up too. Cherry, one of my ganders, is one of the only geese who looks more like his father than his mother. Catalpa - the biggest goose I ever had - looked like both his father and mother. ​​​I have had quite a few ganders who I could not tell who their parents might be. There are also the extremely obvious geese who there is no doubt who their parents are. 

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The two chinese geese

5/9/2020

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Before we knew anything about geese we ordered two Chinese geese. We did not know what Willow was. We did not know whether Willow was a boy or a girl. So we decided to get two female geese so that even if Willow turned out to be a female it would not matter because there would be no fighting. Our plans were ruined when Willow unexpectedly died. We got a lot of goslings and that was not the plan. We were going for only a few geese. We still planned to get the Chinese geese as well.

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    my name is Emily

    I have twenty-eight geese. I hatch a bunch of goslings because I want a lot of people to have geese. I do not see them everywhere but I want to! The goslings are the sweetest baby birds I know! The adult males are proud and can be cranky but have their sweet moments while the females are shy and sweet all at the same time.

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