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.
I believe the Ash eye-color is from the smaller goose - the Chinese goose. Perhaps their wild ancestor the Swan goose also had eye-color differences and this was passed along to the Chinese and then on to the African goose. Whatever the case it is certainly present among my geese. I hope to retain a goose or two with the Ash eye-color because it is such a unique and fascinating color.
I will continue studying the eye-colors to see if I need to establish new color types but for now three is quite alright.
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my name is EmilyI have a lot of geese. My goal is for geese to be everywhere. There are a few who can make the perfect guard goose. But most of them would be better as pets, weeders, and lords over all the other birds. Categories
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