GEESE

I keep:

Utility Embdem: The traditonal farmyard goose. Like most, mine are kept for hatching eggs, quills and craft feathers, eating eggs, goslings and meat.

Sebastopol: An RBST rare breed. This white goose has a gentle nature to match its sft, raggety appearance. the feathers lack a strong spine, falling in sometimes untidy fronds. I keep them mainly for these feathers, which because of their flexibility can be spun into my own designer yarns

Greylag: The wild greylag was used to produce several of our modern domesticated geese, including the Sebastopol. I keep them to breed back to my Sebastopol so that I will have grey and white sebastopol in the future, giving me a range of grey/buff feathers for future designer yarn production. Although they can be quite vocal and protective of their site, my single pair show no signs of being "wild". As the rest of the birds, they have unclipped wings but choose to remain close to the main population of birds.

These geese free range together as much as possible over the main field, only being split up occasionally to ensure that pairs are well bonded. Once bonded the birds remain together within the main flock